48 Bible Verses about Farming

The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

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

And at the season time he sent to the tenants a servant, that he might receive from the tenants of the fruit of the vineyard.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.

When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do unto those tenants?

Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

And Noah began to till the soil, and he planted a vineyard:

The sower sows the word.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an farmer; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits of it:

You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country for a long time.

You shall not sow your vineyard with different seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.

But that which bears thorns and briars is worthless, and is near unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?

But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your oliveyard.

For his God does instruct him aright, and does teach him.

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came 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 they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

He that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

Bread grain is ground; therefore he will not forever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Also he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells: for he had many cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: farmers also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved the soil.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield unto you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall you be in the earth.

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.