Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Genesis 1:29, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Psalms 145:15
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- Psalms 104:27
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
- Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
- Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foo…
- Job 36:31
For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
- Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.
- Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is no…
- Psalms 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
- Psalms 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
More to meet God in Genesis
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.