Mark 4:26

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And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

“Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

The wicked earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up.

Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

And the

seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.