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Bird

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Matthew 6:26

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Deuteronomy 22:6–7

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:20

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

Matthew 10:29

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

Genesis 1:30

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

Genesis 1:26

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Matthew 13:32

which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

Psalms 104:12

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

Job 38:41

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

Genesis 1:21

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Psalms 50:11

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

Job 12:7–10

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

Leviticus 11:13

“‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 8:20

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

Psalms 147:9

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

Genesis 15:11

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Revelation 18:2

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Matthew 13:4

As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Song of Solomon 2:12

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Genesis 9:2

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Daniel 4:33

This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Isaiah 31:5

As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

Psalms 84:3

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Job 12:7

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Leviticus 11:15

any kind of raven,

Leviticus 11:13–20

“‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture, — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Colossians 2:1–23

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:39

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Matthew 10:31

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Matthew 10:29–31

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:25–34

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:1–4

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Matthew 3:16

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

Isaiah 34:11

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 16:2

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

Psalms 124:7

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Psalms 104:17

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

Job 39:27

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

Job 39:26

“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

Job 39:13

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Job 28:7

That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

Job 12:6–8

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 11:19

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Leviticus 11:16

the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 2:19

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

Genesis 1:20–30

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Revelation 4:7

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

James 3:7

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1 Timothy 1:9–10

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, — read the full passage →

Colossians 4:1–18

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

Colossians 1:1–29

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Acts 10:12

in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Zephaniah 1:3

I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7:33

The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and no one shall frighten them away.

Isaiah 46:11

calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Ecclesiastes 10:20

Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

Psalms 148:10

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

Psalms 91:1–16

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Psalms 84:1–4

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! — read the full passage →

Psalms 8:8

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

1 Kings 4:33

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Deuteronomy 22:6

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

Deuteronomy 14:13

the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,

Deuteronomy 14:1–29

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 11:17

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

Leviticus 11:14

and the red kite, any kind of black kite,

Genesis 40:19

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

Genesis 8:8

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

Genesis 8:7

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Genesis 7:8

Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

Genesis 6:7

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 1:20–23

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1–20

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:1–25

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Acts 20:35

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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