Isaiah 40:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Mark 13:31 : 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
  • 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
  • Matt 5:18 : 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
  • Ps 119:89-91 : 89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
  • John 10:35 : 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
  • John 12:34 : 34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
  • Rom 3:1-3 : 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what pfit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
  • Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
  • Isa 59:21 : 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

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  • Isa 40:5-7
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    5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

    6The 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:

    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

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    24For 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:

    25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • 12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

  • Ps 92:7-8
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    7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

    8But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.

  • 35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • 89LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

  • 4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

  • 31Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

  • 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

  • 33Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

  • 6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Ps 102:11-12
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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

    12But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

  • 8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

  • 4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

  • 9O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • 11They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

  • 6Let them be as the grass upon the houseto, which withereth afore it groweth up:

  • 31The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.

  • 26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

  • 11The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

  • 30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 16The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

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    7But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • 4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

  • 24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 8They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

  • 27Therefore 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.

  • 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

  • 13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

  • 8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

  • 21As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

  • 4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

  • 10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

  • 1A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

  • 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

  • 3His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

  • 36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

  • 18The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.

  • 36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.