nature
What does the Bible say about nature? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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7In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you. 8Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain. 9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? 10In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.
11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved. 12The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoice
6You yourself alone, O Lord, made heaven, and the heaven of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all things that are in it, the seas and all things that are in them. And you gave life to all these things. And the host of heaven adores you.
5They will tell of the magnificent glory of your sanctity. And they will discourse of your wonders.
12For you will go forth rejoicing, and you will be led forward in peace. The mountains and the hills will sing praise before you, and all the trees of the countryside will clap their hands.
20For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse.
2The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.
11He has made all things good in their time, and he has handed over the world to their disputes, so that man may not discover the work which God made from the beginning, even until the end.
4For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded. 5What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
35Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
11“You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you have created all things, and they became and were created because of your will.”
28And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither work nor weave. 29But I say to you, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these. 30So if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast into the oven tomorrow, how much more will he care for you, O little in faith?