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The document contains several Bible passages that use flowers and plants as metaphors and comparisons. Specifically, multiple passages compare humans or human life to flowers and grass, noting how they are beautiful but fleeting. The grass withers and flowers fall away, representing how mortal life is temporary. Additional passages reference flowers, plants, and gardens in poetic descriptions.

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Bible Verses

The document contains several Bible passages that use flowers and plants as metaphors and comparisons. Specifically, multiple passages compare humans or human life to flowers and grass, noting how they are beautiful but fleeting. The grass withers and flowers fall away, representing how mortal life is temporary. Additional passages reference flowers, plants, and gardens in poetic descriptions.

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Isaiah 40:6-7 New International Version (NIV)

A voice says, “Cry out.”


6 

    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,


    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

7 
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
    because the breath of the LORD blows on them.

Job 14:2 New International Version (NIV)


They spring up like flowers and wither away;
2 

    like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

Psalm 103:15 New International Version (NIV)


The life of mortals is like grass,
15 

    they flourish like a flower of the field;

James 1:9-10 New International Version (NIV)


Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high
9 

position. 10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will
pass away like a wild flower.

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translations.

Isaiah 40:8  NKJV – The grass withers, the flower fades, But the
word of our God stands forever.

1 Peter 1:23-24  NKJV – 23 having been born again, not of


corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which
lives and abides forever, 24 because “All flesh [is] as grass, And all
the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And
its flower falls away,

Isaiah 40:6-7  NKJV – 6 The voice said, “Cry out!” And he said,
“What shall I cry?” “All flesh [is] grass, And all its loveliness [is] like
the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people
[are] grass.

Matthew 6:28  NKJV – 28 “So why do you worry about clothing?


Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor
spin;

James 1:10  NKJV – 10 but the rich in his humiliation, because as a


flower of the field he will pass away.

Song of Songs 1:14  NKJV – 14 My beloved [is] to me a cluster of


henna [blooms] In the vineyards of En Gedi.
Psalm 103:13-18  NKJV – 13 As a father pities [his] children, [So]
the LORD pities those who fear Him. 14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we [are] dust. 15 [As for] man, his days [are]
like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind
passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting
On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s
children, 18 To such as keep His covenant, And to those who
remember His commandments to do them.

Song of Songs 2:1-2  NKJV – 1 I [am] the rose of Sharon, [And] the
lily of the valleys. 2 [The Beloved] Like a lily among thorns, So is
my love among the daughters.
Isaiah 18:4-5  NKJV – 4 For so the LORD said to me, “I will take My
rest, And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in
sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” 5 For before
the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening
in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And
take away [and] cut down the branches.

Hosea 14:5-6  NKJV – 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall


grow like the lily, And lengthen his roots like Lebanon. 6 His
branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And
his fragrance like Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 4:5  NKJV – 5 It [was] a handbreadth thick; and its


brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, [like] a lily blossom. It
contained three thousand baths.

1 Kings 6:18  NKJV – 18 The inside of the temple was cedar,


carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All [was] cedar;
there was no stone [to be] seen.

Isaiah 5:24  NKJV – 24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble,


And the flame consumes the chaff, [So] their root will be as
rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they
have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
1 Kings 6:29  NKJV – 29 Then he carved all the walls of the temple
all around, both the inner and outer [sanctuaries], with carved
figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

2 Chronicles 4:21  NKJV – 21 with the flowers and the lamps and
the wick-trimmers of gold, of purest gold;

Numbers 8:4  NKJV – 4 Now this workmanship of the lampstand


[was] hammered gold; from its shaft to its flowers it [was]
hammered work. According to the pattern which the LORD had
shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Job 14:2  NKJV – 2 He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
Exodus 25:31-36  NKJV – 31 “You shall also make a lampstand of
pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its
branches, its bowls, its [ornamental] knobs, and flowers shall be [of
one piece]. 32 “And six branches shall come out of its sides: three
branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of
the lampstand out of the other side. 33 “Three bowls [shall be]
made like almond [blossoms] on one branch, [with] an [ornamental]
knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond [blossoms]
on the other branch, [with] an [ornamental] knob and a flower–and
so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. 34 “On the
lampstand itself four bowls [shall be] made like almond [blossoms,
each with] its [ornamental] knob and flower. 35 “And [there shall
be] a knob under the [first] two branches of the same, a knob under
the [second] two branches of the same, and a knob under the
[third] two branches of the same, according to the six branches that
extend from the lampstand. 36 “Their knobs and their branches
[shall be of one piece]; all of it [shall be] one hammered piece of
pure gold.
Psalm 37:20  NKJV – 20 But the wicked shall perish; And the
enemies of the LORD, Like the splendor of the meadows, shall
vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.

Isaiah 28:1  NKJV – 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards


of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower Which [is] at
the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with
wine!

Luke 12:27  NKJV – 27 “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they
neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Song of Songs 2:12  NKJV – 12 The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is
heard in our land.

Numbers 17:8  NKJV – 8 Now it came to pass on the next day that
Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of
Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had
produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds.

Song of Songs 6:2  NKJV – 2 [The Shulamite] My beloved has gone


to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed [his flock] in the
gardens, And to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 5:13  NKJV – 13 His cheeks [are] like a bed of


spices, Banks of scented herbs. His lips [are] lilies, Dripping liquid
myrrh.

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