1 Peter 1:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

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  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Ps 103:15 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Ps 102:4 : 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 ...
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
  • Ps 129:6 : 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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    5 And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

    6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

    7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

    8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • 1 Pet 1:25
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    25 But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

  • Job 34:15
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    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5 ...

    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

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    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Jas 4:14
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    14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

  • Heb 1:11
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    11 They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

  • Ps 49:12
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    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • Isa 64:6
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    6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • Job 14:10
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    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Isa 28:4
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    4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.

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    29 So that no flesh might have glory before God.

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    7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

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    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

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    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

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    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

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    4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

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    27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

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    26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

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    28 But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

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    21 So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours;

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    38 But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

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    25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

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    24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;