Ecclesiastes 1:4

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Afterward the woman also died.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”