Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
And he told them many things in figures, and said to them, "A sower went out to sow,
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It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."
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If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows. The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first; and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else; and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.
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