American Standard Version of 1901
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Howbeit what things were {Greek: gains.}gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
For he hath looked upon the low estate of his {Greek: bondmaid.}handmaid:For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away:His generation who shall declare?For his life is taken from the earth.
who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
And he commanded them that all should {Greek: recline.}sit down by companies upon the green grass.
For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.
For, {Isaiah 40:6 ff.}All flesh is as grass,And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass.The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: