"I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.

I myself created the whole universe! I am pleased with those who are humble and repentant, who fear me and obey me.

"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!

Not only those things; I reckon everything as complete loss for the sake of what is so much more valuable, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have thrown everything away; I consider it all as mere garbage, so that I may gain Christ

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

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.

We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.

They will soon disappear like grass that dries up; they will die like plants that wither.

I once knew someone wicked who was a tyrant; he towered over everyone like a cedar of Lebanon;

but later I passed by, and he wasn't there; I looked for him, but couldn't find him.

You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.

My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.

As for us, our life is like grass. We grow and flourish like a wild flower;

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.

It is God who clothes the wild grass---grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!

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.

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,

The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.