Isaiah 61:11

As surely as a garden brings forth its plants, God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all nations. It matters because God's saving purpose is certain and worldwide.

Cross-references · 15

• Mark 4:26–32He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
• Isa 58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Isa 55:10–11For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
• Ps 85:11Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
• Song 4:16Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
• Isa 62:1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
• Isa 62:7and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
• Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
• Matt 13:23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
• Matt 13:3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
• Ps 72:3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
• Isa 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
• Ps 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
• Matt 13:8Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

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