12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Isa 40:6 · exact_quote
  "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:"
  Isaiah: all flesh is as grass — the word of the Lord endures forever

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
• 1Cor 7:31 — And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
• 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 2Kgs 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 house tops, and as corn blasted befo
• Eccl 3:18 — I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
• Gen 31:1 — And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
• Isa 40:6 — 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:
• Isa 40:6 — 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:
• Isa 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
• Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Jas 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.
• Jas 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.
• Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
• John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• Luke 4:6 — And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
• Luke 12:28 — If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
• Matt 4:8 — Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
• Matt 6:30 — Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
• Prov 31:30 — Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
• Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
• Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
• Ps 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Ps 49:12 — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
• Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• Ps 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Ps 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Ps 102:4 — My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
• Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
• Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• Ps 129:6 — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: