1 Peter 1:24 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

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:

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory of Nyssa

ON VIRGINITY 4 (395)

One who reflecting on this holds cheaply all that mankind prizes, whose only love is the divine life, because "all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass," can never care for this grass which "to-day is and to-morrow is not"; studying the divine ways, he knows not only that human life has no fixity, but that the entire universe will not keep on its quiet course for ever; he neglects his existence here as an alien and a passing thing; for the Saviour said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away," the whole of necessity awaits its refashioning.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

All flesh - Every human creature is transient and withering as grass. And all the glory of it - His wisdom, strength, wealth, righteousness. As the flower - The most short-lived part of it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 398: “The New Nature” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1861)

PETER HAD earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other “with a pure heart fervently,” and he wised fetches his argument, not from the law, nor from nature, nor from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God hath implanted in his people. Love each other with a pure heart fervently, for ye have been born again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible. I might compare Peter to some judicious tutor of the princes of the blood, who labors to beget and foster a kingly spirit in the king’s sons.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διότι	dioti	because	G1360 →
πᾶσα	pasa	All	G3956 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh [is]	G4561 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
χόρτος,	chortos	grass,	G5528 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πᾶσα	pasa	all	G3956 →
δόξα	doxa	[the] glory	G1391 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	of it	G846 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
ἄνθος	anthos	[the] flower	G438 →
χόρτου·	chortou	of grass;	G5528 →
ἐξηράνθη	exēranthē	Withers	G3583 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
χόρτος,	chortos	grass,	G5528 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἄνθος	anthos	flower	G438 →
ἐξέπεσεν·	exepesen	falls away;	G1601 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
leads to
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- 1 John 2:17
  The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
- Psalms 102:3
  For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Job 7:6–7
  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- James 1:10
  But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
Through
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
leads to
- James 1:10–11
  But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 37:2
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
leads to
- Psalms 92:7
  that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Psalms 90:5–6
  You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—