48 Bible Verses about Farming
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Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.
And He spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully.
And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field. When you reap the gleaning of your harvest, you shall not gather. You shall leave them to the poor and to the stranger. I am Jehovah your God.
And I saw that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; for the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field.
You shall be blessed in the city, and be blessed in the field.
And at the season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that he might receive from the vinedressers the fruit of the vineyard.
And they will build houses and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for Jehovah. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man without understanding;
I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.
Therefore when the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?
Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
And Noah began to be a husbandman. And he planted a vineyard.
But he shall say, I am no prophet; I am a man, a tiller of the ground; for a man taught me to buy from my youth.
You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
And He began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to vinedressers. And he went into a far country for a long time.
You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.
But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is a curse, whose end is to be burned.)
and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.
But the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your oliveyard.
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, even they came up against them.
For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
And when they who were hired about the eleventh hour came, they each one received a denarius.
He who watches the wind shall not sow; and he who pays attention to the clouds shall not reap.
And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son. But I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees.
The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine. For you are strangers and pilgrims with Me.
And other fell on a rock, and sprouting, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.
And he who serves the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him.
The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
And he turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. And he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.
therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.