Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
Thematic Bible
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
And he spake unto them many things in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went out to sow:
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which indeed is among the smallest of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is among the greatest of herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make their nests in the branches of it.
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If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
Be not deceived; God is not to be trifled with: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth unto his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
But this I add, He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly, and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
Thou fool! what thou sowest is not quickened except it die: 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: but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat falling on the earth undergo a deathlike change, it abideth single: but if it [thus] die, it beareth abundant produce.
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