The Enduring Word
a“All flesh is as grass,
And all1 the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
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1 Peter 1:24
I Peter 1:24-25 Quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 (partly like the LXX, partly like the Hebrew).
For (dioti). As in verse I Peter 1:16 (dia and oti), "for that." So in I Peter 2:6. See a free use of this imagery about the life of man as grass and a flower in James 1:11. The best MSS. here read authv (thereof) after doca (glory) rather than anqrwpou (of man).
Withereth (echranqh). First aorist (gnomic, timeless) passive indicative of chrainw (see James 1:11).
Falleth (ecepesen). Second aorist (gnomic, timeless) active indicative of ekpiptw (see James 1:11). In verse I Peter 1:25 note eiv umav (unto you) like eiv umav in I Peter 1:4 (umin dative).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 1:24:
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