Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;