What does the Bible say about tree?
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The Bible uses trees to portray God’s life-giving provision, the fruitfulness of faith, judgment on unbelief, and the final restoration found in Christ. In Genesis 1:11 and 2:9, trees display the Creator’s goodness, including the tree of life in Eden. Psalms 1:3 and Jeremiah 17:8 compare those who trust the Lord to well-watered trees that endure hardship and bear fruit. Jesus declares in John 15:5 that His people can bear no lasting fruit apart from abiding in Him. Yet Matthew 3:10 warns that fruitless trees face judgment. Revelation 22:2, 14 points to the tree of life as part of God’s redeemed creation, where Christ grants His people everlasting healing and fellowship.
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- Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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.
- Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
- Revelation 22:2
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
- Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
- John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
- Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Matthew 3:10
"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Psalms 52:8
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
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