Isaiah 55:9-13
9 aFor as the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 b“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
cgiving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but dit shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 e“For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
fthe mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 gInstead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
Mark 4:26-29
The Parable of the Seed Growing
26And he said, h“The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; ihe knows not how. 28The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once jhe puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”Luke 6:43-44
A Tree and Its Fruit
43“For kno good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 44for leach tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.John 1:13
13who mwere born, nnot of blood onor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.1 Corinthians 2:11
11For who knows a person’s thoughts pexcept the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.1 John 2:29
29If you know that qhe is righteous, you may be sure that reveryone who practices righteousness has been born of him.1 John 3:8-9
8 sWhoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was tto destroy the works of the devil. 9 uNo one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s ▼▼Greek his
seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
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