48 Bible Verses about Farming
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Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'
I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support. So the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.
Jehovah will bless your towns and your fields.
During the season he sent a servant to the field workers that he might receive the fruits of the vineyard.
They will build houses and dwell in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
But the seventh year is to be a sabbath year of complete rest for the land. It is a year dedicated to Jehovah. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
When the lord of the vineyard returns, what will he do to the workmen?
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.
Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.
He will say I am no prophet! I am a tiller of the ground. I have been made a slave from my youth.
You will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy them.
He told the people an illustration: A man planted a vineyard. He rented it to tenants and went to another country for a long time.
Do not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed that you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.
That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.
Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Let your land rest the seventh year. Do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there. The wild animals may have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
When the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites along with the desert tribes attacked them.
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
He who observes the wind will not sow and he that regards the clouds will not reap.
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
Amos told Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son. I was a herdsman, and a grower of sycamore figs.
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.
Other seed fell on the rock. As soon as it grew it withered away because it had no moisture.
Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.
Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him.
The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Then Elisha went to his team of bulls, killed them, and cooked the meat. He used the yoke as fuel for the fire. He gave the meat to the people, and they ate it. Then he followed Elijah as his helper.
When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.
Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
