4 Bible Verses about Agriculture, Used Figuratively

The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together. For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.' I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes, indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.

As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his almsgiving remains for ever."

Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.