Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of


Thematic Bible



He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds

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." Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSmall Things God UsesBig ThingsSmall ThingsPlants Growing UpHerbsBirdsPlanting SeedsChange And GrowthSeedssoaring



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. Verse ConceptsBeing PreparedPresent, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSeedSeeking GodHoly Spirit, Types OfFruits Of RighteousnessSowing GoodReapingFallow LandBreakupsReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

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.

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Qualities NeededCollectionsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineSeedThriftCultivationReapingStingy PeopleReaping What You Sowsoaringsowing

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. Verse ConceptsBusynessVegetationNot Knowing The FutureAt Morning And EveningFrom Morning Till EveningCareer SuccessReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSuccess And Hard WorkSowing Seedssowing

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.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places -- they and their children will sprout forth and return. Verse ConceptsRemnantGod Scattering IsraelReturning to their landFar From HereLiving OnBelievers Remembering God

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. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualFruit, Spiritualevil, victory overGrainWheatGain Through LossDeath To SelfParables Of SowingIsolated PersonsThe Source Of FruitThe Effect Of Christ's DeathChrist Telling The TruthTruly Truly

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