1 Corinthians 15:38

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?