48 Bible Verses about Farming

The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.

But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive.

‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the Lord your God.’”

I also discovered that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers who performed the service had gone away, each to his own field.

“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

“They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

The sower sows the word.

but he will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’

“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

“Again you will plant vineyards
On the hills of Samaria;
The planters will plant
And will enjoy them.

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“Break up your fallow ground,
And do not sow among thorns.

When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

Grain for bread is crushed,
Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;

The workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.

He built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowland and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.

Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

The sluggard does not plow after the autumn,
So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.

So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.