Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

[you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Lebanon.

Yet I passed by, and lo! He was not; and I sought him, but his place was not found.

Years shall be vanity to them; let the morning pass away as grass.

In the morning let it flower, and pass away; in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

[As for] man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

But if God thus clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, [will He] not much more [clothe] you, [O you] of little faith?

and those using this world as not using it up. For the form of this world is passing away.

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.