Bible on Impermanence

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

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:

Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.