1 Peter 1:24
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- KJV
- For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- WEB
- For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- ASV
- For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
- DARBY
- Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen;
- BLB
- because, “All flesh [is] like grass, and all the glory of it like a flower of grass. The grass withered, and the flower fell off,
- ÅB
- For alt kjød er som gress, og all dets herlighet som blomst på gress: gresset visnet, og blomsten på det falt av,
- OTB
- For,
“All menneskehet er som gress,
Og all dens prakt er som gressets blomst.
Gresset visner,
Og blomsten faller av, - B1930
- For alt kjød er som gress, og all dets herlighet som blomst på gress: gresset visnet, og blomsten på det falt av,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 40:6–8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Read in contextPsalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Read in contextJames 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Read in contextJames 1:10–11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Read in contextPsalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Read in context2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Read in contextPsalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Read in context1 John 2:17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
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