Thematic Bible: Botany


Thematic Bible




"By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles? "No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit. "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; neither can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

"Hence it is by their fruit you will know them. Verse ConceptsDistinguishing

"For there is not good tree which bears worthless fruit, nor again any worthless tree which bears good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. "You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain. But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Qualities NeededCollectionsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineSeedThriftCultivationReapingStingy PeopleReaping What You Sowsoaringsowing

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin. "But I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was robed like one of these.