Quotes About Nurture

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”

The farmer sows the word.

Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade.”

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ëBlessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!í

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his fatherís house.

When he was set outside, Pharaohís daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.