Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.
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It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."
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If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
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.
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