Mark 4:28
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28 The earth produces of itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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Philippians 1:9-11
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9 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight(A) 10 to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, 11 having produced the harvest[a] of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
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- 1.11 Gk fruit
Mark 4:31-32
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31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
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Hosea 6:3
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3 Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;
his appearing is as sure as the dawn;
he will come to us like the showers,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”(A)
1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
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12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.(A) 13 And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.[a](B)
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- 3.13 Other ancient authorities add Amen
Colossians 1:10
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10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.(A)
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Philippians 1:6
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6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete[a] it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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- 1.6 Or perfect
Matthew 13:26
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26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.
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Isaiah 61:11
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11 For as the earth brings forth its shoots
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all the nations.(A)
Ecclesiastes 3:11
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11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Everything Has Its Time
3 For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven:(A)
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Psalm 92:13-14
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13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 In old age they still produce fruit;
they are always green and full of sap,(A)
Proverbs 4:18
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18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.(A)
Psalm 1:3
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3 They are like trees
planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.(A)
Genesis 4:11-12
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11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”(A)
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Genesis 2:9
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9 Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(A)
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Genesis 2:4-5
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4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
Another Account of the Creation
In the day that the Lord[a] God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground,(A)
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- 2.4 Heb YHWH, as in other places where “Lord” is spelled with capital letters (see also Ex 3.14–15 with notes)
Genesis 1:11-12
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11 Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.(A) 12 The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good.
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