Bombus

"... and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so."   Genesis 1:30

Canticle

"Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!"   Psalm 95:1

Stallion

Radio Flyer Spring Rocking Horse

 "...Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."   Matthew 18:3

Repose

"... He leads me beside still waters."   Psalm 23:2

Aceraceae

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty."   Psalm 91:1

Liliaceae

"...His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh."   Song of Solomon 5:13

Ambulate

"The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day."   Proverbs 4:18

Shul

"Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit."   Ephesians 2:20-22

Cirrus

"At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them."   Job 37:12

Asteraceae

Gaillardia

"For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations."   Isaiah 61:11

Quadruped

Kickapoo River

"For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills."   Psalm 50:10

Anemone sylvestris

Snowdrop anemone

 "Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window."   Hosea 13:3

Sesamum indicum

"You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart."   Psalm 104:14-15

Patriarch

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"even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will"   Ephesians 1:4-5

Acer palmatum

"Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit"   Leviticus 26:4

Contrive

"He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer... or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer."   Exodus 35:35

Delectation

"And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun."   Ecclesiastes 8:15

Aurora

"And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."   Genesis 1:4b-5

Capsicum

"Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."   Acts 14:17

Centaurea cyanus

Bachelor's Button

"yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."   Matthew 6:29

Consonance

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he..."   Proverbs 23:7

Cumulus

"Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,"   Job 37:16

Cachinnation

"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting"   Job 8:21

Precipice

Kickapoo River

"And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided."   Genesis 8:1b

Quercus

"If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie."   Ecclesiastes 11:3

Escalonia

"You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth"   Psalm 104:14

Paeoniaceae

Peony

"As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field"   Psalm 103:15

Crepuscule

"He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting."   Psalm 104:19

Connubial

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."   Genesis 2:24

Artifice

watercolor

"He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer."   Exodus 35:35