46 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

“For they will sow in peace: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the skies will yield their dew. I will give the remnant of this people all these things as an inheritance.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

In the morning sow your seed,
and at evening do not let your hand rest,
because you don’t know which will succeed,
whether one or the other,
or if both of them will be equally good.

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Now the One who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

He replied: “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man;

“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,

The sower sows the word.

It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.

he sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

Others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Other seed fell on the rock; when it sprang up, it withered, since it lacked moisture.

One who watches the wind will not sow,
and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Still others fell on good ground and produced a crop: some 100, some 60, and some 30 times what was sown.

“You, then, listen to the parable of the sower:

On the day that you plant,
you will help them to grow,
and in the morning
you will help your seed to sprout,
but the harvest will vanish
on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Then he took some of the land’s seed
and put it in a fertile field;
he set it like a willow,
a plant by abundant waters.

“The kingdom of God is like this,” He said. “A man scatters seed on the ground;

Still others fell on good ground and produced a crop that increased 30, 60, and 100 times what was sown.”

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Then Joseph said to the people, “Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.

Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

He replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Those who sow in tears
will reap with shouts of joy.

Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

Sow righteousness for yourselves
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes and sends righteousness
on you like the rain.

the field is the world; and the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The Lord blessed him,

But the seed in the good ground—these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, bear fruit.

These are the ones along the path where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.

It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

“The days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.

But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.