18 Bible Verses about Farming
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As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord. the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn.
but as soon as the fruit is ripe, the sickle is applied, because the harvest is come.
to which purpose he propos'd to them this parable: a rich man had some land that was very fruitful.
at the time of vintage he sent his servant to the vine-dressers to receive the profits of his vineyard.
Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:
when the master therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?
now he that furnishes seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall furnish and multiply what you sow, and increase the fruits of your liberality.
For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.
Then he propos'd this parable to the people, a man planted a vineyard, let it out to husbandmen, and then went a travelling for some time.
but that which bears thorns and briars, is look'd upon as lying under a curse; whose end will be to be burnt.
however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.
they then that were hired about the eleventh hour, came and received every man his penny.
some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:
Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.
of two persons, who shall be then in the field, one shall be taken, and the other left.
