Thematic Bible: Botany
Thematic Bible
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a man sows that he will reap.
Verse Concepts
By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit. A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.
Hence it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such men.
Verse Concepts
There is no such thing as a good tree bearing worthless fruit, or, on the other hand, a worthless tree bearing good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.
You foolish man! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies! And when you sow, you sow not the body that will be, but a mere grain-perhaps of wheat, or something else. God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.
Botany » Lily, beauty of
Remember the saying--'Scanty sowing, scanty harvest; plentiful sowing, plentiful harvest.'
Verse Concepts
And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; Yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.