Sparrow

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?

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

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

“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 →

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

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. — read the full passage →

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.”

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

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.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

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

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain!” — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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 →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. — read the full passage →

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

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.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! — read the full passage →

Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! — read the full passage →

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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.

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

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,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus wept.

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!

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

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.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

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

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain!”

then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

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.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

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.