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Isaiah 40:7-8
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
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1 Peter 1 4
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
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Luke 12:16-21
He spoke a parable to them, saying,“ The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.He reasoned within himself, saying,‘ What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’He said,‘ This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.I will tell my soul,“ Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’“ But God said to him,‘ You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared— whose will they be?’So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
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Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
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Luke 16:19-25
“ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.He cried and said,‘ Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’“ But Abraham said,‘ Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.
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Mark 4:6
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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Matthew 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
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Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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James 5:1-7
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth- eaten.Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
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1 Corinthians 7 31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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Jonah 4:7-8
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said,“ It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Job 21:24-30
His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.“ Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.For you say,‘ Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
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Psalms 73:18-20
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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Psalms 49:6-14
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
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Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
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Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
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Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
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Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first- ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
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1 Peter 5 4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.