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! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards the clouds won't reap.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.