I’m not sure if you feel this or not, but sometimes when walking through gardens, you can’t help but feel God’s fingerprints pressed into the soil. My goal in listing these Bible verses is to help you grow in love with the Almighty Gardener. If you are a gardener, I encourage you to use the quiet time to pray and seek God’s face.
Gardening is a time when we can praise the Lord for His beautiful creation. It’s a space to ponder the good news of Jesus Christ, to marvel at how we’re rooted in Him—a gift too big for words. A gift that often makes me cry just thinking about it. How awesome is our God! If you haven’t done this yet today, stop and take a moment right now to thank Him for the blessing and beauty of life. Thank Him for the trees, flowers, and plants. Now that you’ve done that, let’s dive in.
1. Genesis 2:8 (NIV) – “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.”
2. Genesis 2:15 (ESV) – “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
3. Genesis 3:8 (NASB) – “They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.”
4. Genesis 2:9 (NKJV) – “And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
5. Genesis 3:23 (KJV) – “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”
6. John 19:41 (NLT) – “The place of crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb, never used before.”
7. John 18:1 (NIV) – “When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.”
8. Song of Solomon 4:12 (ESV) – “A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.”
9. Isaiah 58:11 (NASB) – “And the Lord will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.”
10. Jeremiah 31:12 (NKJV) – “Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the Lord—For wheat and new wine and oil, for the young of the flock and the herd; their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all.”
11. Song of Solomon 6:2 (KJV) – “My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.”
12. Ezekiel 36:35 (NLT) – “And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’”
13. Isaiah 51:3 (NIV) – “The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.”
14. Genesis 13:10 (ESV) – “And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)”
15. Ezekiel 28:13 (NASB) – “You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the chrysolite; and gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, was in you.”
16. Song of Solomon 5:1 (NKJV) – “I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.”
17. Joel 2:3 (KJV) – “A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.”
18. Matthew 26:36 (NLT) – “Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, ‘Sit here while I go over there to pray.’”
19. Isaiah 61:11 (NIV) – “For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.”
20. Jeremiah 29:5 (ESV) – “Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.”
21. Amos 9:14 (NASB) – “I will also restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit.”
22. Song of Solomon 4:15 (NKJV) – “A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.”
23. Genesis 3:10 (KJV) – “And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
24. Luke 13:19 (NLT) – “It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden; it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make nests in its branches.”
25. Ezekiel 31:8-9 (ESV) – “The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty. I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.”