Bible Cross References
in honour
Psalm 49:20
Our greatness cannot keep us from death; we will still die like the animals.
Psalm 39:5
How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,
Psalm 82:7
But you will die like mortals; your life will end like that of any prince."
James 1:10
and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant.
James 1:11
The sun rises with its blazing heat and burns the plant; its flower falls off, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way the rich will be destroyed while they go about their business.
1 Peter 1:24
As the scripture says, "All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,
beasts
Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
18
I decided that God is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals.
19
After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either.
20
They are both going to the same place---the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.
21
How can anyone be sure that the human spirit goes upward while an animal's spirit goes down into the ground?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
You never know when your time is coming. Like birds suddenly caught in a trap, like fish caught in a net, we are trapped at some evil moment when we least expect it.