(14) For all (l) flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
(14) A reason why we need this heavenly birth, that is, because men, though their glory may not be great, are by nature void of all true and sound goodness.
(l) The word, "flesh", shows the weakness of our nature, which is chiefly to be considered in the flesh itself.
1 PETER 1:24 auvth/j Instead of auvth/j (î72 ac (&tou a*) A B C 206 614 1739 1873 2298 vg syrp, h cop(sa), bo eth Origen Didymus), the Textu...
Verse 24. _FOR ALL FLESH_ IS _AS GRASS_] Earthly seeds, earthly productions, and earthly generations, shall fail and perish like as the grass and flowers of the field; for the _grass withereth_, and _...
FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS - That is, all human beings, all men. The connection here is this: The apostle, in the previous verse, had been contrasting that which is begotten by man with that which is b...
II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS CHAPTER 1:22-2:10 _ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_ 2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1) 3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
GRASS. Compare James 1:10; James 1:11. MAN. The texts read "it", referring to "flesh". WITHERETH. withered. Compare James 1:11, where the verbs are in the past tense, as here....
_For all flesh is as grass_ The words have a two-fold interest: (1) as a quotation from the portion of Isaiah's prophecy (Isaiah 40:6-8) with which the Apostle must have been familiar in connexion wit...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΔΙΌΤΙ is used again to introduce a quotation in 1 Peter 1:16 and 1 Peter 2:6. The quotation is taken from Isaiah 40:6-8, and agrees with the LXX. in omitting the words “because the breath of the Lord...
ΧΌΡΤΟΣ (G5528) трава, ΆΝΘΟΣ (G438) цветок. ΈΞΗΡΆΝΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΞΗΡΑΊΝΩ (G3583) высушивать; _pass._ сохнуть, ΈΞΈΠΕΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΚΠΊΠΤΩ (G1601) опадать. _Aor._ выразительно описыв...
FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS, &C.— _Flesh_ is often, by a common figure, put for _man:_ but perhaps the apostle here used the word to intimate that he meant the _body_ of man, frail and short-lived like...
_5. BROTHERLY LOVE 1:22-25_ 1 Peter 1:22-23 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: having be...
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: Scripture proof that the word of God lives forever, in contrast...
VERSE 24 FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS. To make the declaration that God's word is living and eternal to stand out with more boldness, the apostle presents by the way of contrast, a quotation from the pro...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
BARE OUR SINS.. ON] RM 'carried up.. to.' A sacrificial term is here used: cp. Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 13:15. THE TREE] i.e. the Cross: cp....
The ‘word of the *Lord’ (God) can refer to the Bible. It also means the good news that God saves people from *sin through Jesus Christ. When people hear or read this good news, it is like a seed that...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS. — The citation is from Isaiah 40:6, and varies between the Hebrew and the LXX. in the kind of way which shows that the writer was familiar with both. But the passage is by n...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found s...
f. = Isaiah 40:6-8, adduced as endorsement of the comparison instituted between natural generation and divine regeneration, with gloss explaining the saying of Jehovah (_cf._ Hebrews 1:1 f.). The only...
The combination of purification of souls with love of the brotherhood suggests that the temptations to relapses were due to former intimacies and relationships which were not overcome by the spiritual...
REDEEMED AND PURIFIED 1 Peter 1:13 The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours must be the girded loins,...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
THE TEMPORARY MATERIAL WORLD VERSUS THE ABIDING WORD One would never know it by observing the way people live grasping after all they can find in this material world, but all this is temporary. Peter...
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed w...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_THE ABIDING WORD_ ‘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: but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And t...
24_For all flesh _He aptly quotes the passage from Isaiah to prove both clauses; that is, to make it evident how fading and miserable is the first birth of man, and how great is the grace of the new b...
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
Ver. 24 FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS,.... All men, as born of corruptible seed, are frail, mortal, and perishing; they spring up like grass, and look beautiful for a while, but are very weak and tender,...
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: Ver. 24. _All flesh is grass_] To live is but to lie dying. Can...
_For all flesh_ Every human creature, _is_ transient and withering _as grass_ The word χορτος, here rendered grass, denotes not only what we generally call _grass_, but all kinds of herbs; and among t...
FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS; a contrast between the weakness and transitoriness of man and the power and eternal duration of God's word, taken from Isaiah 40:6-8....
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;...
The quality of Christian love:...
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
FOR: Or, for that...
_ 1 Peter 1:24 ‘For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off, but the word of the Lord abides forever.”'_ ‘FOR' -This is. quot...
17-25 Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a Judge, agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit...
ALL FLESH; all men as born of the flesh, and in their natural state, in opposition to regenerate men, 1 PETER 1:23. ALL THE GLORY OF MAN; whatever is most excellent in man naturally, and which they ar...
1 Peter 1:24 because G1360 All G3956 flesh G4561 as G5613 grass G5528 And G2532 all G3956 glory G1391 man...
BEING BEGOTTEN AGAIN OF THE LIVING AND ETERNAL WORD OF GOD HAS PURIFIED THEIR SOULS IN OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, AND THIS MUST WORK ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER (1 PETER 1:22). He now outlines wha...
1 Peter 1:24. FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS. Peter breaks off into the rapid, vivid terms in which the prophet of Isaiah 40 speaks of his commission. ‘The air is full of inspiration, of Divine calls and p...
The exhortation to brotherly love, which is next introduced, is not without a living connection with the preceding. The circumspect walk which has been enjoined is a walk such as befits those who are...
1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 1:25 Quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 (partly like the LXX, partly like the Hebrew).FOR (διοτ). As in verse 1 Peter 1:16
1 Peter 1:24 The Frailty of Man. "For all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass." Disease is a democrat, like death. It makes no distinctions, and equalises all ranks in soc...
1 Peter 1:17. _And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:_ Not in unbelieving fear, but in that...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;_ This is Peter's practical appli...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. Isaiah 40:6-8 Septuagint. "Our human life, like the wild grass, doesn't last very long at the best! But a new birth from the living and eternal word of God is a birth to eternal...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:24 Peter cites Isaiah 40:6, Isaiah 40:8 to contrast the weakness of human flesh with the powe
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:17. THE FATHER.—Better, “a Father.” God apprehended as Father through our apprehension of the Sonship of Christ. _Plumptre_ reminds us that “the sequel shows...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
1 John 2:17; 2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11;...
Of man. Following the reading ajnqrwpou, in the Septuagint, Isaiah 40:6, which Peter quotes here. But the best texts read aujthv, of it, or, as Rev., thereof. Withereth [ε ξ η ρ α ν θ η]. Literally, t...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...
All flesh — Every human creature is transient and withering as grass. And all the glory of it — His wisdom, strength, wealth, righteousness. As the flower — The most short — lived part of it. The gras...
Our apostle closes the chapter, by setting before them the excellency of their spiritual regenerate state, compared with all other excellences and endowments whatsoever: ALL FLESH, that is, flesh with...