Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow.
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Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.
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If we sow spiritual seed in you, is it too much if we reap material things?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.
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I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.
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Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows. He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.
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In the morning sow your seed. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
You fool, that which you sow is not alive unless it first dies. That which you sow, you sow not that body that will develop, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain: But God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
I will sow them among the peoples! They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and return.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
Truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit.
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