Quotes about Soil
Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.
- Paul David Tripp
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
- Genesis 4:2
So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
- Genesis 4:3
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
- Genesis 9:20
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 23:19
Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
- Numbers 13:20
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
- Deuteronomy 26:2
“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
- 2 Kings 5:17
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- Job 14:19
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- Psalm 141:7