20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who follows worthless people and frivolous pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

So the Lord God took the man [He had made] and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

therefore the Lord God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

And [later] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept the flocks [of sheep and goats], but Cain cultivated the ground.

Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you shall eat the plants of the field.

“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who follows worthless things lacks common sense and good judgment.

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the pick and the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are pastured and where sheep tread.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat; but Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you [in favor], and you shall be cultivated and sown.

And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for strong and distant nations.
Then they shall hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks [so that the implements of war may become the tools of agriculture];
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Nor shall they ever again train for war.

and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,

“Can you bind the wild ox with a harness [to the plow] in the furrow?
Or will he plow the valleys for you?

“You shall not plow with an ox [a clean animal] and a donkey [an unclean animal] together.

Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?
Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?

The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;
So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].

Do horses run on rocks?
Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),

When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five more years in which there will be no plowing and harvesting.