1 Peter 1:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded; they have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops that is scorched before the east wind.

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 129:6

Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,

Psalm 37:2

for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

Isaiah 51:12

I, I am he who comforts you; why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die, a human being who fades like grass?

Matthew 6:30

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.