31 Bible Verses about Seeds

now the meaning of the parable is this: the seed sown signifies the word of God.

the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one:

'tis one indeed of the smallest grains: but when it is grown, it is the largest of the pulse kind, and becomes a tree: so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.

he answered them, he that soweth the good seed, is the son of man:

but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.

another part fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked it.

now he that furnishes seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall furnish and multiply what you sow, and increase the fruits of your liberality.

and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:

some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:

but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.

it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.

another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:

when any one heareth the doctrine of the gospel, and considers it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away what was sown in his heart: he is the person meant by the high-way, where some of the seed was sown: but the stony ground,

they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

because of your incredulity, said Jesus: for I tell you truly, if ye had ever so little faith, ye might say to this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it should remove; and nothing would be too difficult for you.

but while the people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

since your regeneration is not owing to any corruptible principles, but to the unchangeable word of the immortal God.

Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:

Hear then the meaning of this parable of the sower.

if your faith improv'd like a grain of mustard-seed, you might say to this sycamine-tree, be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

they who cultivate peace, enjoy the reward of their virtue.

He propos'd another parable to them, which was this; the gospel-state is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took to sow in his field.

however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

and if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring, and his heirs by virtue of the promise.

but by the good ground is meant such persons as have received the doctrine with simplicity and sincerity, abide by it, and practise it with perseverance.

neither are they who are the race of Abraham, all children: but 'tis said, "in Isaac shall thy posterity be called."

but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body.

a husbandman went out to sow his corn: and as he was sowing, some fell upon the beaten road, which was crush'd under foot, or devoured by the birds.