Bible Verses About Trees
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for trees, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,006 votes, led by Jeremiah 17:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Trees
Jeremiah 17:8387 votes
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Psalms 1:3346 votes
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Job 14:7312 votes
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
1 Chronicles 16:33243 votes
Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth.
Matthew 7:17202 votes
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Daniel 4:10-12179 votes
Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
Genesis 2:9169 votes
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Revelation 22:14125 votes
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Psalms 52:8121 votes
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Proverbs 3:18115 votes
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Revelation 22:2114 votes
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Colossians 2:7107 votes
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Proverbs 13:1295 votes
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Isaiah 60:1390 votes
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Ezekiel 17:2485 votes
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
Deuteronomy 20:1980 votes
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
1 Kings 19:578 votes
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Leviticus 26:473 votes
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Genesis 1:1172 votes
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Proverbs 11:3072 votes
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Genesis 3:1770 votes
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Isaiah 61:370 votes
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Isaiah 65:2268 votes
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Hosea 14:667 votes
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Isaiah 41:1966 votes
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
What does the Bible say about trees?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 17:8 on the subject of trees. Across 7,006 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 1:3, Job 14:7, 1 Chronicles 16:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.