48 Bible Verses about Farming

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

And as soon as the fruit is brought forth, anon he thrusteth in the sickle because that harvest is come."

And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously,

"'When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any after gathering of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"

And I perceived that the portions of the Levites were not given them, for the which cause the Levites and singers were fled, everyone, to his land for to work.

Blessed shalt thou be in the town and blessed in the fields;

And when the time was come, he sent to the tenants a servant that he might receive of the tenants of the fruit of the vineyard.

They shall build houses, and dwell in them: they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And he said, "So is the kingdom of God, even as if a man should sow seed in the ground,

But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The LORD's Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man.

I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman.

When the Lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do with those husbandmen?"

He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness - that on all parts

We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

And Noah, being a husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,

The sower, soweth the word.

But he shall be fain to say, 'I am no Prophet: I am a husbandman, for so am I taught by Adam from my youth up.'

"Six years thou shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof:

Thou shalt plant vines again upon the hills of Samaria, and the grape gathers shall plant and sing.

Then began he to put forth to the people this similitude, "A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seed: lest thou hallow the seed which thou hast sown with the fruit of thy vineyard.

but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

and should sleep and rise up night and day: and the seed should spring, and grow up while he is not aware.

Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.

and the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.

And that he may do it right, his God teacheth him and showeth him.

For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,

For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.

And they which were hired about the eleventh hour, came and received every man a penny.

He that regardeth the wind, shall not sow; and he that hath respect unto the clouds, shall not reap.

And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.

Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, "As for me I am neither prophet, nor prophet's son: but a keeper of cattle. Now as I was breaking down mulberries, and going after the cattle,

As for the wheat, he grindeth it to make bread thereof; Inasmuch as he cannot bring it to pass with treading out. For neither the bruising that the cart wheels make, nor his beasts, can grind it.

Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:

And some fell on stone, and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moistness.

Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold.

And he spake many things to them in similitudes, saying, "Behold, the sower went forth to sow.

They that labour for the wealth of the city, shall maintain this also, out of what tribe soever they be in Israel.

And the LORD God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.

Then two shall be in the fields: the one shall be received, and the other shall be refused,

And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.

And Isaac sowed in the land, and found in the same year a hundred bushels; for the LORD blessed him.

A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

And he went back again from after him, and took a yoke of oxen and slew them, and dressed the flesh with the instruments of the oxen and gave it the people, and they did eat. And then he arose and went after Elijah and ministered unto him.

For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."

and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.