Thematic Bible: Botany
Thematic Bible
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Verse Concepts
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Thus you will know them by their fruits.
Verse Concepts
"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.
You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
Botany » Lily, beauty of
The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Verse Concepts
And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.