48 Bible Verses about Farming

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"

I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to his field.

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

When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

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

He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

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

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

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

When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

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

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

The farmer sows the word.

but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'

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

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

He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

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 animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.

"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards the clouds won't reap.

Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

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

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

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

He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

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