Bible Verses About Impermanence

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:

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.