no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.

You will put them in slippery places and make them fall to destruction!

They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.

They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish.

A voice cries out, "Proclaim a message!" "What message shall I proclaim?" I ask. "Proclaim that all human beings are like grass; they last no longer than wild flowers.

Yes, grass withers and flowers fade, but the word of our God endures forever."

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

those who deal in material goods, as though they were not fully occupied with them. For this world, as it is now, will not last much longer.

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.

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.

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

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,

You are my God; teach me to do your will. Be good to me, and guide me on a safe path.

"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.

Which one of the two did what his father wanted?" "The older one," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "I tell you: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister, my mother."

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God---what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

For this reason we have always prayed for you, ever since we heard about you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives.

Greetings from Epaphras, another member of your group and a servant of Christ Jesus. He always prays fervently for you, asking God to make you stand firm, as mature and fully convinced Christians, in complete obedience to God's will.

God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.

be thankful in all circumstances. This is what God wants from you in your life in union with Christ Jesus.

You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.

From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forever.

Storms come, and the wicked are blown away, but honest people are always safe.

but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life."

This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

The Father and I are one."

They are for you, who through faith are kept safe by God's power for the salvation which is ready to be revealed at the end of time.

but the word of the Lord remains forever." This word is the Good News that was proclaimed to you.