"He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.'"
Matthew 13:31-32
"God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil."
Genesis 2:9
"This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God."
Genesis 5:1
"You're a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom."
Psalm 1:3
"I'm an olive tree, growing green in God's house. I trusted in the generous mercy of God then and now."
Psalm 52:8
"You're blessed when you meet Lady Wisdom, when you make friends with Madame Insight....She's the very Tree of Life to those who embrace her. Hold her tight - and be blessed!"
Proverbs 3:13, 18
"A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree."
Proverbs 11:28
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise."
Proverbs 11:30
"All the trees of the field will recognize that I, God, made the great tree small and the small tree great, made the green tree turn dry and the dry tree sprout green branches. I, God, said it - and I did it."
Ezekiel 17:24
"I will make a fresh start with Israel. He'll burst into bloom like a crocus in the spring. He'll put down deep oak tree roots, he'll become a forest of oaks! He'll become splendid - like a giant sequoia, his fragrance like a grove
of cedars!...I am like a luxuriant fruit tree. Everything you need is to be found in me."
Hosea 14:5, 6, 8c,d
"God arranged for a broad-leafed tree to spring up. It grew over Jonah to cool him off and get him out of his angry sulk. Jonah was pleased and enjoyed the shade. Life was looking up."
Jonah 4:6
"Each man will sit under his own shade tree, each woman in safety will tend her own garden. God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so, and he means what he says."
Micah 4:4
"Has anything in your fields - vine, fig tree, pomegranate, olive tree - failed to flourish? From now on you can count on a blessing."
Haggai 2:19
"If you grow a healthy tree, you'll pick healthy fruit. If you grow a diseased tree, you'll pick worm-eaten fruit. The fruit tells you about the tree."
Matthew 12:33
"Every tree that wasn't planted by my Father in heaven will be pulled up by its roots."
Matthew 15:13
"The apostles said to the LORD, 'Increase our faith!' He replied, 'If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.'"
Luke 17:5-6
"Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. There was a man there named Zacchaeus...He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowds. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree beside the road, so he could watch from there. When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. 'Zacchaeus!' he said. 'Quick, come down! For I must be a guest in your home today.' Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy."
Luke 19:1-6
"He told them a story. 'Look at a fig tree. Any tree for that matter. When the leaves begin to show, one look tells you that summer is right around the corner. The same here - when you see these things happen, you know God's kingdom is about here."
Luke 21:29-31
"When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, 'Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.' 'How do you know me?' Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, 'I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.' Then Nathanael declared, 'Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.' Jesus said, 'You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that.'"
John 1:47-50
"These prophets, along with the covenant God made with your ancestors, are your family tree."
Acts 3:25
"Behind and underneath all this there is a holy, God-planted, God-tended root."
Romans 11:16a
"If the root is holy, so are the branches."
Romans 11:16b
"There's the root of our ancestor Jesse, breaking through the earth and growing tree tall, Tall enough for everyone everywhere to see and take hope! Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!"
Romans 15:12-13
"Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches. I'm about to call each conqueror to dinner. I'm spreading a banquet of Tree-of-Life fruit, a supper plucked from God's orchard."
Revelation 2:7
"The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the nations."
Revelation 22:2
"How blessed are those who wash their robes! The Tree of Life is theirs for good, and they'll walk through the gates to the City."
Revelation 22:14
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