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24 The holy writings say, `People may be great. But they are like a flower on the grass. The grass dies and the flower falls off.

25 But the word of the Lord cannot die!' And this word is the good news which has been told to you.

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24 For,

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[a](A)

And this is the word that was preached to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)