Psalms 8:8

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.

Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.