Saints, Compared To
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Saints, Compared To’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 49–65 of 65 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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John 15:2 NT
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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John 15:4 NT
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
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John 15:5 NT
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
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One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very…
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As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
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Hosea 14:5 OT
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
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Isaiah 44:4 OT
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
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Psalms 1:3 OT
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
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Psalms 92:12 OT
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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Psalms 52:8 OT
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
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Hosea 14:6 OT
His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
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Matthew 3:12 NT
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
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“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
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Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
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Matthew 5:13 NT
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.