28 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds
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I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.
And he who supplies 'seed to the sower, and bread for eating,' will supply you with seed, and cause it to increase, and will multiply 'the fruits of your righteousness').
By what can we illustrate it? Perhaps by the growth of a mustard-seed. This seed, when sown in the ground, though it is smaller than all other seeds,
And then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed is shooting up and growing--he knows not how.
And when you sow, you sow not the body that will be, but a mere grain-perhaps of wheat, or something else.
Some, again, fell into the brambles; but the brambles shot up and choked it.
Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?
Other seed fell upon rock, and, as soon as it began to grow, having no moisture, withered away.
Some, however, fell on good soil, and yielded a return, sometimes one hundred, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty fold.
Jesus also said: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like-- like a man who has scattered seed on the ground,
Some fell into good soil, and, shooting up and growing, yielded a return, amounting to thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold."
For here the proverb holds good--'One sows, another reaps.'
You foolish man! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!
"The sower went out to sow his seed; and, as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path and was trodden upon; and the wild birds ate it up.
"Every plant," Jesus replied, "that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Some fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil, and, having no depth of soil, sprang up at once.
The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked,
But, while every one was asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and then went away.
But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the Message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.
The People meant by the seed that falls along the path are these--where the Message is sown, but, as soon as they have heard it, Satan immediately comes and carries away the Message that has been sown in them.
This seed is smaller than all other seeds, but, when it has grown up, it is larger than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that 'the wild birds come and roost in its branches.'"
God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.
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