Thematic Bible: Sowing, illustrative of
Thematic Bible
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Preaching the gospel
He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow.
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It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."
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If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Men's works producing a corresponding recompense
Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Christian liberality
But do not forget that he who sows with a niggardly hand will also reap a niggardly crop, and that he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies; and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » Scattering or dispersing a people
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The death of Christ and its effects
In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.
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