31 Bible Verses about Seeds

This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

He answered, "The sower who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

And some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up,

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

and some fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil and it sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep,

When anyone hears the teaching of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and robs him of the seed that has been sown in his mind. That is what was sown along the path.

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

but while people were asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

"You must listen closely then to the figure of the sower.

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.

nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.