48 Bible Verses about Farming

The hard-working farmer [who labors to produce crops] ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

So wait patiently, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits [expectantly] for the precious harvest from the land, being patient about it, until it receives the early and late rains.

But when the crop ripens, he immediately puts in the sickle [to reap], because [the time for] the harvest has come.”

Then He told them a parable, saying, “There was a rich man whose land was very fertile and productive.

‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the edges of your field, nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.’”

I also discovered that the portions due the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers who did the work had gone away, each one back to his own field.

“You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

When the harvest season came he sent a servant to the tenants, in order to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

“They will build houses and live in them;
They will plant vineyards and eat the fruit.

Then He said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who throws seed on the ground;

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow [seed in] your field nor prune your vineyard.

I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding and common sense;

“I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?”

Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness, and love].

For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.

And Noah began to farm and cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard.

The sower sows the word [of God, the good news regarding the way of salvation].

but he will [deny his identity and] say, ‘I am no prophet. I work the ground, because a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’

“You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield,

“Again you will plant vineyards
On the mountains of Samaria;
The planters will plant
And enjoy the [abundant] fruit [in peace].

Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time [to another country].

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or everything produced by the seed which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard will become defiled [and banned for use].

but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

and he goes to bed at night and gets up every day, and [in the meantime] the seed sprouts and grows; how [it does this], he does not know.

Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?
Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat [what the land grows naturally]; whatever they leave the animals of the field may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

For his God instructs [him correctly] and teaches him properly.

For it was whenever Israel had sown [their seed] that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and go up against them.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,

“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],
And do not sow among thorns.

Those who had been hired at the eleventh hour (5:00 p.m.) came and received a denarius each [a day’s wage].

He who watches the wind [waiting for all conditions to be perfect] will not sow [seed], and he who looks at the clouds will not reap [a harvest].

And [later] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept the flocks [of sheep and goats], but Cain cultivated the ground.

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet [by profession], nor am I a prophet’s son; I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

Bread grain is crushed fine,
Indeed, the farmer does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.

‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.

And some seed fell on [shallow soil covering] the rocks, and as soon as it sprouted, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Now Abram was extremely rich in livestock and in silver and in gold.

He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen carefully: a sower went out to sow [seed in his field];

The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it.

So the Lord God took the man [He had made] and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left.

He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, for he had a great deal of livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plain. He also had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.

Then Isaac planted [seed] in that land [as a farmer] and reaped in the same year a hundred times [as much as he had planted], and the Lord blessed and favored him.

The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;
So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].

So Elisha left him and went back. Then he took a pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their meat with the implements of the oxen [as fuel], and gave the meat to the people, and they ate. Then he stood and followed Elijah, and served him.

When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”

therefore the Lord God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.