66 Bible Verses about Sowing And Reaping

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Leviticus 19:23-25

And when ye shall come into the land, and ye planted every tree of food, and ye made uncircumcised in its uncircumcision its fruits: three years it shall be to you uncircumcised: it shall not be eaten. And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises for Jehovah. And in the fifth year ye shall eat its fruits, to add to you its produce. I Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 22:9

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with a diversity, lest the fulness of thy seed which thou shalt sow shall be consecrated, and the produce of the vineyard.

Leviticus 19:9-10

And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou shalt not finish to reap the extremity of thy field, and thou shalt not gather the gleaning of thy harvest And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, and the scattering of thy vineyard thou shalt not glean; to the poor and to the stranger thou shalt leave them: I am Jehovah your God.

Leviticus 23:22

And in your reaping the harvest of your land, thou shalt not finish the extremity of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt not glean: to the poor and to the stranger thou shalt leave them: I Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 24:19

When thou shalt reap thy harvest in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not turn back to take it: to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow shall it be; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the doing of thy hands.

Ruth 2:2-3

And Ruth the Moabitess will say to Naomi, I will now go to the field and I will gather among the ears after; whom I shall find favor in his eyes. And she will say to her, Go, my daughter. And she will go, and come and gather in the field after the reapers; and she will happen from chance upon a part of the field to Boaz, who was from the family of Elimelech.

Exodus 23:16

And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

Leviticus 23:9-11

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye shall come into the land which I give to you, and ye reaped its harvest, and brought a handful of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest: And he lifted up the handful before Jehovah for your acceptance: on the morrow of the Sabbath the priest shall lift it up.

Deuteronomy 16:9-10

Seven weeks shalt thou number to thee: from the beginning of the sickle upon the standing grain, thou shalt begin to number seven weeks. And do thou the festival of weeks to Jehovah thy God according to the willingness of thy hand which thou shalt give as Jehovah thy God shall bless thee.

Exodus 23:10-11

Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree.

Leviticus 25:3-5

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather its produce; And in the seventh year, a Sabbath of rest shall be to the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah: thy field thou shalt not sow, and thy vineyard thou. shalt not prune. The overflowing of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy separation thou shalt not gather: a year of the Sabbaths shall be to the land.

Genesis 26:12

And Isaak will sow in that land, and will find in that year a hundred measures; and Jehovah will praise him.

Leviticus 25:18-22

And ye did my laws and watched my judgments and did them, and dwelt upon the land in confidence. And the land gave her fruits, and ye ate to satisfying, and ye dwelt in confidence upon it And when ye shall say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow and we shall not gather our produce.read more.
And I commanded my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it made the produce for three years. And ye sowed the eighth year, and ate from the old produce till the ninth year; till its produce came in ye shall eat the old.

Leviticus 26:3-5

If ye shall go in my laws and watch my commands, and do them: And I gave your rains in their times, and the land gave its produce, and the tree of the field shall give its fruit: And the threshing time to you reached the vintage, and the vintage shall reach the sowing: and ye ate your bread to satisfying, and ye dwelt in confidence upon your land.

Amos 9:13-14

Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, the ploughing touched upon the harvesting, and the treading of grapes upon the drawing of the seed; and the mountains dropped new wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I turned back the captivity of my people Israel, and they built the cities laid waste, and they inhabited; and they planted vineyards, and they drank their wine; and they made gardens and ate their fruit

Isaiah 30:23

And he gave the rain of thy seed which thou shalt sow the earth and bread of the increase of the earth: and it was fat and fertile, thy cattle shall feed in that day in a large meadow.

Isaiah 62:8-9

Jehovah sware by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, If I shall give more thy grain for food to thine enemies, and if the sons of the stranger shall drink thy new wine which thou didst labor for it: For they gathering it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they collecting it shall drink it in the enclosures of my holy place.

Isaiah 65:21-22

And they built houses and they dwelt in them; and they planted vineyards, and they ate the fruit They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: for as the days of a tree the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 31:5

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Shomeron: they planting, planted, and they made common

Zechariah 8:11-12

And now not as the former days am I to the remnant of this people, says Jehovah of armies. For the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit and the earth shall give her produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I caused the remnant of this people to inherit all these.

Leviticus 26:18-20

And if yet these ye will not hear to me, I added to chastise you seven times for your sins. And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: And your strength shall be exhausted to no purpose: and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit

Deuteronomy 28:15

And it being, if thou shalt not hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch to do all his commands and his laws which I command thee this day; and all these curses came upon thee, and overtook thee:

Isaiah 5:10

For ten measures of a vineyard shall make one bath, and the seed of an omer shall make an ephah.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, and didst not remember the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou shalt sow it with vine shoots of the stranger. In the day of thy planting thou shalt hedge in, and in the morning thou shalt make thy seed fruitful: the harvest a heap in the day of thy possession and incurable pain.

Jeremiah 8:13

Destroying, I will destroy them, says Jehovah; no grapes upon the vine, and no figs upon the fig-tree, and the leaf fell away; and what I shall give to them shall pass by them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

Haggai 1:6

Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated.

Leviticus 26:15-16

And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant: Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

Nehemiah 9:36-37

Behold, we this day are servants, and the land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness, behold, we are servants upon it: And its produce being much for the kings whom thou gavest over us in our sins: and ruling over our bodies and upon our cattle according to their will, and we in great straits.

Job 31:7-8

If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands: I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.

Jeremiah 5:17

And it ate thy harvest and thy bread, that thy sons and thy daughters shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and thy fig-trees: it shall break down thy fortified cities which thou trustedst in them, with the sword.

Micah 6:15

Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olive and thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and new wine, and thou shalt not drink wine.

Isaiah 28:23-29

Give ear and hear my voice; tend and hear my saying. Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth? Did he not make level its face and disperse the fennel flower, and he will scatter the cummin, and he set the wheat in order, and designated the barley, and the spilt in his bound?read more.
He will instruct him, according to judgment his God will teaeh For the fennel flower shall not be beaten with the threshing sledge, and the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned about upon the cummin; for the fennel flower shall be beaten out with the rod and the cummin with the rod. Bread shall be beaten small; for threshing, he will not forever thresh it; and the wheel of his wagon he put in motion and his horsemen shall not beat it small. Also this shall come forth from Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful of counsel and great of understanding.

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

Hosea 10:12-13

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you. Ye ploughed injustice, ye reaped iniquity; ye ate the fruit of falsehood: for thou didst trust in thy way in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Galatians 6:7-8

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap. For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

Mark 4:3-8

Hear ye; behold, he sowing went out to sow: And it was in sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things of heaven came and ate it down. And other fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth; and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no deepness of earth:read more.
And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and because it had no root, it was dried up. And other fell in thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit. And other fell in good earth, and gave fruit coming up and increasing; and one brought thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

Matthew 13:3-8

And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, he, the sower, went forth to sow. And in his sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things came and swallowed them down. And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth.read more.
And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up. And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them. And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.

Luke 8:5-8

The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it. And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture. And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it.read more.
And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 13:18-23

Therefore hear ye the parable of him sowing. Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way. And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it;read more.
And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended. And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty.

Mark 4:14-20

He sowing sows the word. And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts. And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it;read more.
And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized. And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

Luke 8:11-15

And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved. And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away.read more.
And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Matthew 13:24-30

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field: And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away. And when the grass sprouted up and made fruit, then appeared the tares also.read more.
And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares? And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them And he said, No; lest gathering the tares, ye root up the wheat together with them. Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn.

Mark 4:26-29

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not. For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear.read more.
But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward.

Psalm 126:5-6

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing. He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

John 4:35-38

Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest. And he reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life: that he sowing might rejoice together and he reaping. For in this the word is true, That one is sowing, and another reaping.read more.
I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.

Romans 1:13

And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.

1 Corinthians 3:5-9

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased. So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.read more.
And he planting and he watering are one: and each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God.

1 Corinthians 9:9-11

For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen? Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope. If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?

Joel 3:13

Send ye forth the sickle, for the harvest was ripened: come ye, go down, for the wine press was filled, the vats, overflowed; for their evil is great

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: the daughter of Babel is as a threshing-floor, the time of her treading; yet a little while and the time of harvest coming to her.

Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, he set a harvest for thee in my turning back the captivity of my people.

Revelation 14:15-19

And another angel went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up. And he sitting upon the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped. And another angel came forth out of the temple which in heaven, the same also having a sharp sickle.read more.
And another angel came forth from the altar, having power over fire; and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and harvest the grapes of the vineyard of the earth; for her grapes were fully ripe. And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and harvested the earth's vineyard, and cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

Isaiah 5:1-7

I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil: And he will dig it up, and he will free it from stones, and he will plant it with a vine of purple grapes, and build a tower in its midst, and he will also hew out a wine-vat in it: and he will wait for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes. And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge ye now, between me and between my vineyardread more.
What to do more to my vineyard, and did I not in it? wherefore I waited for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes. And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down. And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned and it shall not be dressed, and there came up sharp points and thorns: and upon the clouds I will command from raining rain upon it For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.

Isaiah 17:4-6

And it was in that day the glory of Jacob shall be feeble, and the fatness of his flesh shall waste away. And it was as he gathered the harvest of standing grain, and he shall reap the ears with his arm; and it was as he gathering ears in the valley of Rephaim. And he left in it gleaning, as the beating of the olive tree, two, three berries upon the head of the summit, four, five in the branches of its fruit, says Jehovah, God of Israel.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel is holy to Jehovah, the beginning of the produce: all consuming him shall transgress; evil shall come upon them, says Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 15:35-44

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die: And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body going to be, but the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat, or some of the rest:read more.
And God gives it a body as he would, and to each of the seed its own body. Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things. And celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but truly one the glory of the celestial, and another that of the terrestrial. One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory. So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises. Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:read more.
(As has been written, He scattered; he gave to the poor: his justice remains forever. And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;) Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God.

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Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Harvest, spiritual, general references to

Mark 4:29

But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward.

Matthew 9:37

Then he says to his disciples, Truly the harvest much, but the laborers few.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Luke 10:2

Then said he to them, Truly the harvest much, and the laborers few: implore therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.

More verses: Psalm 126:6 John 4:35-36

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Sowing, spiritual, the blessings of

Psalm 126:5-6

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing. He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy ye sowing upon all waters, sending the foot of the ox and the ass.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

More verses: Luke 8:5

Sowing and reaping » Sowing evil, on the part of the wicked

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

More verses: Proverbs 16:28

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Profitless

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: the daughter of Babel is as a threshing-floor, the time of her treading; yet a little while and the time of harvest coming to her.

Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, he set a harvest for thee in my turning back the captivity of my people.

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Sure to come in the fulness of time

Revelation 14:15

And another angel went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up.

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » According to the seed sown

Galatians 6:7-8

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap. For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Reaped at the judgment day

Joel 3:12-13

The nations shall be roused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will sit to judge all the nations from round about Send ye forth the sickle, for the harvest was ripened: come ye, go down, for the wine press was filled, the vats, overflowed; for their evil is great

Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Disappointing

Isaiah 17:11

In the day of thy planting thou shalt hedge in, and in the morning thou shalt make thy seed fruitful: the harvest a heap in the day of thy possession and incurable pain.

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