Sparrows

“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 →

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,

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

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.

“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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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,

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

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

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 →

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?

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 →

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 →

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

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

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.

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.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

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.

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

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

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.”

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 →

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

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

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

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

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

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

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one momentto his lifespan?

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

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;

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

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

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

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

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.

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 →

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

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

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

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

Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Behold, you have made my days hand breadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

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

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

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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

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