28 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds
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I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.
so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.
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.
it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.
however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.
and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?
some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:
but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.
Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:
but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.
upon this occasion, that saying is verified, "one soweth, and another reapeth."
a husbandman went out to sow his corn: and as he was sowing, some fell upon the beaten road, which was crush'd under foot, or devoured by the birds.
but he answered, every plantation which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up.
another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:
the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one:
but while the people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
but by the good ground is meant such persons as have received the doctrine with simplicity and sincerity, abide by it, and practise it with perseverance.
they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
'tis one indeed of the smallest grains: but when it is grown, it is the largest of the pulse kind, and becomes a tree: so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.
but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body.
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