1 Peter 1:24
Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,

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

Contemporary English Version
The Scriptures say, "Humans wither like grass, and their glory fades like wild flowers. Grass dries up, and flowers fall to the ground.

New American Bible
for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

For.

2 Kings 19:26 And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

Psalm 37:2 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Psalm 90:5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Psalm 92:7 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Psalm 102:4 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Psalm 129:6 Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

Context
The Word of the Lord Stands
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. 24For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away. 25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.…
Cross References
Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Psalm 39:6
Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Psalm 103:15
Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.

Isaiah 51:12
I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

Matthew 6:30
And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

James 1:10
And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

1 Peter 1:23
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