Thematic Bible: Botany
Thematic Bible
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap.
Verse Concepts
By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit. A good tree can not produce diseased fruit; nor can an unsound tree produce goodly fruit.
Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them.
Verse Concepts
For a good tree does not produce unsound fruit; nor does an unsound tree produce good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes gathered from brambles.
Thoughtless man! That which you sow is not made alive, unless it die; and as to that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be produced, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain: but God gives it a body, as it pleases him; and to every seed, its proper body.
Botany » Lily, beauty of
But remember this, that he who sows sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully, shall also reap bountifully.
Verse Concepts
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin. But I say to you, That Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.