Mother Nature

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, `On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens. — read the full passage →

And yet, ask, I pray thee, <FI>One of<Fi> the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens, Praise ye Him in high places. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.

Jesus, therefore, having seen <FI>his<Fi> mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee.

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? — read the full passage →

Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and having entered into one of the boats, that was Simon's, he asked him to put back a little from the land, and having sat down, was teaching the multitudes out of the boat.

Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old. — read the full passage →

The heavens joy, and the earth is joyful, The sea and its fulness roar. — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Thine <FI>are<Fi> the heavens--the earth also <FI>is<Fi> Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. The heavens <FI>are<Fi> recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse <FI>is<Fi> declaring.

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

honour thy father and mother,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God. — read the full passage →

Thou <FI>art<Fi> He, O Jehovah, Thyself--Thou hast made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that <FI>are<Fi> on it, the seas and all that <FI>are<Fi> in them, and Thou art keeping all of them alive, and the host of the heavens to Thee are bowing themselves.

and she saith, `O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I <FI>am<Fi> the woman who stood with thee in this <FI>place<Fi> , to pray unto Jehovah; — read the full passage →

And she saith unto her, `All that thou sayest--I do.' — read the full passage →

`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it--that time shall not be yet,

`Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou--Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

I made earth, and man on it prepared, I--My hands stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they--the high place of the people of the land. — read the full passage →

I lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother's house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

`Many <FI>are<Fi> the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue. — read the full passage →

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day. — read the full passage →