48 Bible Verses about Farming

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully,

"And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God."

I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

The sower sows the word.

but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.'

"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit.

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.

"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.

For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.

He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.

Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.

And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORDblessed him,

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him.

When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.