What Does 1 Peter 1:24 Mean in the King James?
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What looks weighty in human life is as brief as a flower: it falls.
THE MEANING
Your embodied life and all that carries weight are vivid now, yet they do not last. The flower’s fall holds both truths together: human splendor can be real and beautiful without being permanent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that visibility, status, or recognition gives a person lasting weight.
THE ROOT
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοκ-
dok-
The Greek word family carries the sense of what is thought, regarded, or esteemed; in this verse’s biblical vocabulary, doxa also carries the sense of weight.
“Glory” can sound permanent, but doxa points to what is regarded as weighty, and Peter compares that weight to a flower that falls. Human splendor can matter deeply and still be passing.
ALSO GROWS
dokeō: to think, seem, or regard
δοκέω
The family links glory with what is held in someone’s view or esteem.
doxazō: to glorify or honor
δοξάζω
What is glorified is treated as weighty, yet the verse places even this honor beside a falling flower.
endoxos: honored, reputable, or distinguished
ἔνδοξος
Even distinction, the quality people esteem, belongs to the flower’s brief season.
THE PATTERN
Human vitality and splendor are like field growth: vivid for a season, then gone.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.THE THREAD
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.The next verse sets what endures beside the grass and flower that wither and fall. Human splendor passes; the word reaching you remains.
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