And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people

So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”