52 Bible Verses about Seeds

“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

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

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

And He *said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

“Hear then the parable of the sower.

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.

And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

He presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.

I will establish your seed forever
And build up your throne to all generations.” Selah.

for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”

But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants will be named.”

‘For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.

Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother.

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

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up.

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Then their offspring will be known among the nations,
And their descendants in the midst of the peoples.
All who see them will recognize them
Because they are the offspring whom the Lord has blessed.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.