Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.
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It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches."
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If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.
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Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.
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Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed -- whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed -- perhaps of wheat or something else. But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places -- they and their children will sprout forth and return.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
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