Isaiah 40:8
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The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”