1 Peter 1:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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:

1 Peter 1:24 —

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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: …
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
James 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.
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. …
Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-25)

The apostle having given an account of the excellency of the renewed spiritual man as born again, not of corruptible but incorruptible seed, he now sets before us the vanity of the natural man, taking him with all his ornaments and advantages about him: For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; and nothing can make him a solid substantial being, but the being born…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. Scripture proof that the word of God lives for ever, in contrast to man’s natural frailty. If ye were born again of flesh, corruptible seed, ye must also perish again as the grass; but now that from which you have derived life remains eternally, and so also will render you eternal. flesh--man in his mere earthly nature. as--omitted in some of the oldest manuscripts. of man--The oldest manuscri…