5 Bible Verses about Agriculture, Used Figuratively

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together. In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain. I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.