Bible Verses about โrootsโ
The Bible contains 20 verses about roots across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โHe will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.โ
โAs therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,โ
โrooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.โ
โOthers fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.โ
โBlessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.โ
โFor he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.โ
โWhen the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.โ
โOthers fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.โ
โHe spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.โ
โAs he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.โ
โOthers fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.โ
โlooking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;โ
โthat Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,โ
โmay be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,โ
โand to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.โ
โthat he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;โ
โIf the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.โ
โThey have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.โ
โWhen the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.โ
โThus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.โ
