46 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

"For there will be a sowing of peace: the vine will produce its fruit, the earth will produce its full yield, the sky will produce its dew, and I will make the survivors of this people inherit all these things.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

"Don't plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard. Otherwise, the entire crop will have to be forfeited, both the seed that you have sown and the produce from it.

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

Now he who supplies seed to the farmer and bread to eat will also supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest that results from your righteousness.

He answered, "The person who sowed good seed is the Son of Man,

"Now this is what the parable means. The seed is God's word.

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

God also told them, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.

The farmer sows the word.

It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

and what you plant is not the form that it will be, but a bare kernel, whether it is wheat or something else.

Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

Whoever keeps staring at the wind won't sow; whoever daydreams won't reap.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced a crop, some 100, some 60, and some 30 times what was sown.

"Listen, then, to the parable about the farmer.

at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain."

Then the eagle took a seed from the land and planted it in fertile ground. He planted it like a willow tree next to abundant waters.

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

After this, Joseph addressed the people. "Pay attention," he said. "I've bought you and your land for Pharaoh today, in exchange for seed for you. Now go sow the land.

You fool! The seed you plant does not come to life unless it dies,

Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?

How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"

He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be rich and abundant. At that time, your cattle will graze in broad meadows,

"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and birds from the sky ate them up.

He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

Those who weep while they plant will sing for joy while they harvest.

Other seeds fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

while the field is the world. The good seed are those who belong to the kingdom, while the weeds are those who belong to the evil one.

"You'll plant many seeds in a field, but your harvest will be small because the locust will consume it.

While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Vegetation sprouted all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed. And God saw that it was good.

Isaac received a 100-fold return on what he planted that year in the land he received, because the LORD blessed him.

But the ones on the good soil are the people who hear the word but also hold on to it with good and honest hearts, producing a crop through endurance."

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Although it is the smallest of all seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches."

"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah using people and animals as seed.

The one who goes out weeping, carrying a bag of seeds, will surely return with a joyful song, bearing sheaves from his harvest. A Solomonic Song of Ascents

But God gives the plant the form he wants it to have, and to each kind of seed its own form.