48 Bible Verses about Farming

The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the latter rain.

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, had fled every one to his field.

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

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 the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

When therefore the Lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do to those husbandmen?

Now may he that ministereth seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

The sower soweth the word.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Then he began to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, should be defiled.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh to cursing; whose end is to be burned.

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard.

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered, because it lacked moisture.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it.

Then will two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had many cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him:

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.