Thematic Bible: The vine


Thematic Bible



I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. read more.
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them; Verse ConceptsCropsPruningSix YearsLiteral Planting

And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCisternsVineyardWatchmanAgricultureFarming

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men. Verse ConceptsPalm TreesFruitFig treedrynessApplesPomegranatesHarming TreesLack Of Rejoicing

By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white. Verse ConceptsWhiteThings StrippedFoliage

I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry. Verse ConceptsFig treedrynessGrapesHarvestSowing And ReapingVinesFamine

And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food. Verse ConceptsForestsFig treeAnimals, religious role ofVinesDestruction Of PlantsWild Animals DevouringWages Of A Prostitute

But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it. Verse ConceptsAffluenceInvitationsRest, PhysicalSittingVinesTreesSitting In SecurityFreed From FearGod As A Warrior

So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSafetyVines

In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree. Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSittingVinesSitting In Security

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtPlanting VineyardsThe Lord Drove Them Out

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGod, Will OfHorticultureNeglectOppression, Examples OfMetaphorical VineyardsKilling The InnocentOutcryGardens

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey; Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialBarleyTreesHoneyPomegranatesOlive Trees

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesPlanting VineyardsOrchardsCultivationLiving In HousesOlive Trees

Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape. Verse ConceptsAlcoholButterRamsDairyDrinking WineRich Food

But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom. Verse ConceptsAlcoholKingdom Of God, Coming OfLove FeastNot Drinking WineFreshRelationship Of Father And SonKingdom Of GodAlcoholic Beveragescommunion

They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away. Verse ConceptsBlossomingGet Up!

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses. Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights. Verse ConceptsRaisinsCakesDried FruitThree Days And Nightsrevival

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold. Verse ConceptsSycamoresDestroying VineyardsFrostCold Weather

He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land. He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength. Verse ConceptsSpringVinesAnimals, Care ForGreenBearing FruitFear And Animals

For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage. Verse ConceptsCropsFruitfulness, NaturalAgriculture, Growth From GoddewSeedVinesLand ProducingSurvivors FavouredTime Of PeaceAgriculturePlanting SeedsSeedsBlessings And ProsperitySowing Seeds

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine? Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love. Verse ConceptsFig treeBaal Worship, HistoryGrapesBaal Worship, Nature OfAbominations, Idolatry IsDisgustFirst ActionsFinding PeopleThings Like PeopleLoving EvilPotential Of Fruit

And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was. Verse ConceptsUnknown ThingsHerbsWeedpot

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold. Verse ConceptsSycamoresDestroying VineyardsFrostCold Weather

You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtPlanting VineyardsThe Lord Drove Them Out

And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies Verse ConceptsVinesLand ProducingFinancesrebukingbugs

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers. Verse ConceptsOlives



I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower. Verse ConceptsBlossomingSports

Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes. Verse ConceptsFoxesBlossomingPets

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples; Verse ConceptsApplesbreastsbreath

When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge. But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.

For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter: Verse ConceptsPoisondissatisfactionBitterness

And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs. That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.

For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem. And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.

But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge. Verse ConceptsResponsibility, To GodPersonal Responsibility

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFig treeAgriculture, TermsGrapesReformationRest, PhysicalWinepressFigsTreading GrapesSabbath Violated

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods? Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on? See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work? read more.
Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?

For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea. For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting. Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsOccupationsSamaritansSowing And ReapingPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingFarming

Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: Verse ConceptsColtsJoining ThingsWashing ClothesClean ClothesBinding As Animals

And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready. Verse ConceptsGrapesBraveryFertile LandLand Producing

He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry. All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. Verse ConceptsNoahVineyardPlanting VineyardsFarmersCultivationActivity BegunAgricultureFarming

And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves. Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.


It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it. Verse ConceptsForestsAnimals, Types OfPigs

They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars. Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Search ForVinesAltars, PaganSocial SelfishnessFertile LandObelisksBearing Fruit



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