28 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds
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So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.
He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.
And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.
"What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those 'on the wayside' where the Word is sown.
It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the soil, is the smallest seed in the world;
night and day he sleeps and wakes while the seed is sprouting and growing tall, he knows not how.
And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
"Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.
But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;
But some seed fell into good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up and increased, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.
Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
"A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and was trodden under foot, and the wild birds ate it up.
Some fell on rocky ground where there was not much earth. Now because it had no depth of soil, it sprang up at once;
"the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.
"but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat and went away.
"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.
"This is indeed the smallest of seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than any herb, and becomes a tree, so that the winged things of the sky come and roost in its branches."
But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.
