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1 Peter 1:24

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

1 Peter 1:24

Verse 24 of 25

Scripture focus

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:

1 Peter 1:24 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Peter 1:24

Theological / Devotional

For. Gr. dioti, commonly used by Peter to introduce quotations from the OT.

All flesh. The apostle here quotes Isa. 40:6-8. He speaks of humanity in its natural, frail state aside from the sustaining grace of God.

Glory of man. Textual evidence favors (cf. p. 10) the reading “all its glory.”

Withereth. Peter stresses the brevity of human life as compared with the eternity of the government of God. Without the hope of God’s gift of eternal life man has but a few short years of existence.

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