apples
What does the Bible say about apples? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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11Whoever speaks a word at an opportune time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
3Bride to Chorus: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat beneath the shadow of the one whom I desired, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.
8From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,
12The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.
2Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
8Your stature is comparable to the palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
5Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love.
10He discovered him in a desert land, in a place of horror and a vast wilderness. He led him around and taught him, and he guarded him like the pupil of his eye,
8For thus says the Lord of hosts: After the glory, he has sent me to the Gentiles, which have despoiled you. For he who touches you, touches the pupil of my eye.
5Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?
29And God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you,
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.