Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
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Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Genesis 1:27
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Psalms 145:8
The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.
Psalms 145:10
All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing.
Isaiah 40:26
Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
John 5:17
But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
Acts 17:27
So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
Acts 17:29
If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Psalms 90:3
You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
Psalms 104:29
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Hosea 2:6
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
Matthew 6:25
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
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Genesis 47:17
So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.
Isaiah 36:17
Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
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Deuteronomy 11:11
But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:
Deuteronomy 11:12
A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.
Job 37:6
For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
Job 37:7
He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.
Job 37:8
Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
Job 37:9
Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
Job 37:10
By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.
Job 37:11
The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
Job 37:12
And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
Job 37:13
For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
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2 Samuel 12:20
Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:
Psalms 45:8
Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
Ecclesiastes 9:8
Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.
Revelation 7:9
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
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1 Chronicles 26:30
Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.
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1 Chronicles 27:26
Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;
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Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
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Genesis 31:9
So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.
Job 38:39
Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
Job 38:40
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
Job 39:4
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
Job 39:30
His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
Luke 12:24
Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!
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Psalms 104:1
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.
Psalms 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalms 104:5
He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
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Proverbs 10:5
He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
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Proverbs 13:23
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
Proverbs 27:23
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Proverbs 27:27
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
Proverbs 28:19
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.
Jeremiah 40:11
In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
Jeremiah 40:12
Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.
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Isaiah 15:6
The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
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Isaiah 28:25
When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
Isaiah 28:26
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
Isaiah 28:29
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
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Exodus 10:15
For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.
Job 5:11
Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;
Psalms 68:9
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
Psalms 68:10
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Jeremiah 5:24
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
Joel 2:24
And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
Joel 2:25
I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joel 2:26
You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:
Amos 7:2
And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
James 5:18
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
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Job 6:5
Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
Joel 1:19
O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.
Joel 1:20
The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
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Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
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Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
Mark 4:26
And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,
Mark 4:27
And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.
Mark 4:28
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
Mark 4:29
But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.
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Deuteronomy 28:5
A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Psalms 147:14
He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
Daniel 4:25
That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.
Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
Matthew 6:30
But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?
Romans 8:21
That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.
Romans 8:22
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
1 Timothy 4:10
And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.
1 Timothy 6:8
But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
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Romans 14:3
Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
Romans 14:14
I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
Romans 14:20
Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
Colossians 2:21
Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,
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Proverbs 15:17
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Romans 14:2
One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:23
We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
1 Corinthians 10:26
For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Colossians 2:16
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
Colossians 2:22
(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
1 Timothy 4:5
For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
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Psalms 63:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
Psalms 107:35
He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.
Isaiah 4:2
In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.
Isaiah 35:1
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
Isaiah 35:2
It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
Isaiah 41:18
I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah 41:19
I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:
Isaiah 43:19
See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
Isaiah 43:20
The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
Hebrews 6:8
But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.
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