Grass
5 lines · 11 passages
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Created on the third creative day
Gen 1:11
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11 -
Mown
Ps 72:6
6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Psalms 72:6 -
God’s care of
Matt 6:30; Luke 12:28
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Matthew 6:3028 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Luke 12:28 -
On roofs of houses
Ps 129:6
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms 129:6 -
Figurative
Ps 90:5, 6; Isa 40:6; 1 Pet 1:24; Jas 1:10, 11
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 90:56 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 90:66 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isaiah 40:624 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
1 Peter 1:2410 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 1:1011 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
James 1:11
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
