44 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

The seed is the word.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them.

Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.