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1 Peter 1:24 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 24. 24For 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:
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Role in This Section
This verse uses Isaiah's grass-and-flower image to contrast mortal human glory with the Lord's enduring word.
Read It With
- 1 Peter 1:22–2:3
Read 1 Peter 1:24 with 1:22–2:3. This verse uses Isaiah's grass-and-flower image to contrast mortal human glory with the Lord's enduring word. The complete unit establishes this movement: New birth through God's enduring gospel should become sincere, fervent love: malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander are laid aside while the community longs for pure nourishment and grows into salvation after tasting the Lord's goodness.
Why It Needs Context
This verse uses Isaiah's grass-and-flower image to contrast mortal human glory with the Lord's enduring word. That contribution depends on 1 Peter 1:22–2:3; isolated teaching would detach the line from the letter's complete movement.
Read 1 Peter 1:22–2:3 together
Why these verses belong together: Sincere love, imperishable new birth, Isaiah's enduring word, removal of relational harm, milk, growth, and tasted goodness cross the chapter boundary as one movement.
Verse 22. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Verse 23. 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Verse 24. 24 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:
Verse 25. 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Verse 1. 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Verse 2. 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Verse 3. 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Peter 1:22–2:3 — Enduring New Birth Produces Sincere Love and Hunger for GrowthSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Peter 1:22–2:3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, repeated terms, and original-language discussion.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file 1Pet.txt, 1:22–2:3
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