Fruits

How Nave’s arranged it

• NATURALGenesis 1:11Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:27–29
• See under the respective headings of various fruit-producing trees
• SPIRITUAL
• See Righteousness, Fruits of
• See Sin, Fruits of

The passages, in Bible order (3)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 1:11

   Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 1:112 voices

   “After the earth, rid of the weight of the water, had rested, the command had come to it to bring forth first the herbs, then the trees. And this we see still happening even at the present time. For the voice that was then heard and the first command became, as it were, a law of nature and remained in the earth, giving it the power to produce and bear fruit for all succeeding time.

   “And God said, let the earth bring forth grass,....

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2. Genesis 1:12

   The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 1:122 voices

   “When I hear "grass," I think of grass, and in the same manner I understand everything as it is said: a plant, a fish, a wild animal and an ox. Indeed, "I am not ashamed of the gospel." … (Some) have attempted by false arguments and allegorical interpretations to bestow on the Scripture a dignity of their own imagining. But theirs is the attitude of one who considers himself wiser than the revelations of the Spirit and introduces his own ideas in pretense of an explanation. Therefore, let it be understood as it has been written.

   “And the earth brought forth grass,....

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3. Genesis 1:27–29

   So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 1:27–292 voices

   “It is not They made. Here Scripture avoids the plurality of the Persons. After having enlightened the Jew, it dissipates the error of the Gentiles in putting itself under the shelter of unity, to make you understand that the Son is with the Father, and guarding you from the danger of polytheism. He created him in the image of God. God still shows us His co-operator, because He does not say, in His image, but in the image of God.

   “So God created man in his own image,....

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