and as he was sowing, some seeds fell indeed by the road-side; and the birds came and ate them up:

Now he that supplieth seed to the sower, shall also supply bread for food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it up.

Another parable proposed he to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man who sowed good seed in his field:

The servants of the proprietor came, and said to him, Master, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it the zizane?

And he replying said to them, He that sowed the good seed, is the Son of man;

But to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, To seeds, as unto many persons; but as to an individual, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

nor, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body which shall be afterwards, but the bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some of the other seeds:

It is like a grain of mustard, which when it is sown in the earth, is among the least of all the seeds which are upon the earth:

For he verily took not on him the angelic nature, but assumed that of the seed of Abraham.

And other seed fell on a rock, and vegetating, withered because it had no moisture.

And other seed fell amidst thorns, and the thorns springing up with it, choked it.

Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.

By faith also that very Sarah, who was barren, received ability for the conception of seed, and past the usual time of life brought forth a child, because she accounted that he who promised it, would be true to his promise.

unto whom it had been said, "That by Isaac shall there be a seed bearing thy name:"

saying, Master, Moses wrote for us, If a man's brother die, having a wife, and he die childless, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed for his brother.

born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the quickening word of God, and which abideth for ever.

Every one who is born of God, doth not practise sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

And the dragon was incensed against the woman, and went forth to make war against the remnant of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Doth not the scripture say, That the Messiah cometh of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, whence David originally was?

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and never were in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, That we shall be made free?

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not so much as the print of his foot: yet he promised to give it for a possession to him and to his seed after him, when he had no son.

Then spake God to him thus, That his seed should sojourn in a foreign land: and that they should enslave it, and grievously afflict it, four hundred years.

From this man's seed according to the promise hath God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; made from the seed of David after the flesh,

For not by the law [came] the promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is by faith, that it might be of grace; in order that the promise might be secured to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Who contrary to hope, in hope believed, that he should be the father of many nations, according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be."

That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

Even as Isaiah had said before, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha."