Isaiah 40:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.””
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“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 40:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 119:89Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
- Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Isaiah 55:10For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Zechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
- Matthew 5:18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
- John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
- Romans 3:1What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
- 1 Peter 1:25but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
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