46 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed -- whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

"Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

The sower sows the word.

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground --

He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed -- perhaps of wheat or something else.

Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

"So listen to the parable of the sower:

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

He also said, "The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

For in this instance the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

And he replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

"You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

The land produced vegetation -- plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches."

"Indeed, a time is coming," says the Lord, "when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.

The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.