28 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds
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I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.
And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.
And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness.
It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be)
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
Another part drops upon the rock, and after growing up it withers away for want of moisture.
But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.
Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."
For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
"The sower," He said, "goes out to sow his seed; and as he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and is trodden upon, or the birds of the air come and peck it up.
"Every plant," He replied, "which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Some falls on rocky ground, where it has but scanty soil. It quickly shows itself above ground, because it has no depth of earth;
the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.
but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.
But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.
Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.
It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."
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