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! A sower went out to sow.

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper 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 gave the growth.

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.