1 Peter 1:24

The Passion Translation

Human beings are frail and temporary, like grass, and the glory of man fleeting like blossoms of the field. The grass dries and withers and the flowers fall off,

Cross References

Psalm 103:15

Our days are so few, and our momentary beauty so swiftly fades away!

James 4:14

But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes!

Psalm 37:2

They and their short-lived success will soon shrivel up and quickly fade away, like grass clippings in the hot sun.

1 John 2:17

This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.

Psalm 129:6

Let them be like grass planted in shallow soil that soon withers with no sustenance.

Psalm 92:7

It’s true the wicked flourish, but only for a moment; they foolishly forget their destiny with death, that they will all one day be destroyed forevermore.

Psalm 90:5

One day we will each be swept away into the sleep of death. We glide along through the tides of time— so quickly gone, like a dream that fades at dawn, like glistening grass that springs up one day and is dry and withered the next, ready to be cut down!

Psalm 39:6

We live our lives like those living in shadows. All our activities and energies are spent for things that pass away. We gather, we hoard, we cling to our things, only to leave them all behind for who knows who.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, yes I, am the one who comforts you. All the sons of men will be cut down and fade like grass. Why then would you be afraid of a mere human being?

Matthew 6:30

So if God has clothed the meadow with hay, which is here for such a short time and then dried up and burned, won’t he provide for you the clothes you need—you of little faith?