Deuteronomy 20:19,20
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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The Barren Fig-Tree.
... I have repeatedly seen fig-trees growing within the lofty wall of the carefully
cultured vineyard, rewarding the possessor for his care with abundant fruit. ...
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Whether the Judicial Precepts Regarding Foreigners were Framed in ...
... But we should show greater care and love for these things that are nearest to ... of
a captured hostile city were to be slain, but that the fruit-trees should not ...
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On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 33, "Either Make the Tree ...
... is the ax laid unto the root of the trees; every tree ... it and dung it; and if it bear
fruit, well; and ... since He must necessarily come, let us take care that He ...
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The Germination of the Earth.
... Trees of which the fruit is tender ... The delicacy of the first requires more care;
if the latter had a thicker case, the shade of the leaves would be harmful ...
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Where to Find Fruit
... the cluster, may well say to all the trees of the ... From me is your fruit found." The
fruit owes much ... fruitfulness"but it owes very much also to external care. ...
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The vine and the Branches.
... However ignorant we may be of the propagation of fruit trees and the processes of ...
And even after the graft has been achieved the husbandman's care is still ...
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In the Bitter Cold of Winter the Trees Stand Bare of Leaves...
... In the bitter cold of winter the trees stand bare ... might in future for ever bear good
fruit, and thus ... are certainly free from danger and in the shepherd's care. ...
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Elegance and Grace
... But shall no beauty, no symmetry, be observed in the care of fruit trees?
Undoubtedly there should, and I would place them in a ...
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My California Trip
... The orange-trees were a beautiful sight ... We felt led to divide the flour, meat, fruit,
and butter ... before their departure by beginning to manifest his care for us ...
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Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall ...
Further, the Apostle says (1:Cor.9:9) that God does not "take care for oxen ...
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Fruit

Fruit of the Spirit

Fruit Trees: Care For

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