31 Bible Verses about Seeds

This is the parable--The seed is God's Message.

The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked,

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.'"

And he answered: "The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man.

Some, however, fell on good soil, and yielded a return, sometimes one hundred, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty fold.

Some, again, fell into the brambles; but the brambles shot up and choked it.

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').

As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Other seed fell upon rock, and, as soon as it began to grow, having no moisture, withered away.

Some fell into good soil, and, shooting up and growing, yielded a return, amounting to thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold."

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,

Some fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil, and, having no depth of soil, sprang up at once.

When any one hears the Message of the Kingdom without understanding it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what has been sown in his mind. This is the man meant by the seed which was sown along the path.

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.

"Because you have so little faith," he answered; "for, I tell you, if your faith were only like a mustard-seed, you could say to this mountain 'Move from this place to that!' and it would be moved; and nothing would be impossible to you."

But, while every one was asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and then went away.

since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.

Jesus also said: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like-- like a man who has scattered seed on the ground,

Listen, then, yourselves to the parable of the Sower.

But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

And righteousness, its fruit, is sown in peace by those who work for peace.

Another parable which he told them was this-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

And then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed is shooting up and growing--he knows not how.

I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.

And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham's offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.

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.

Nor, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all his Children; but-'It is Isaac's children who will be called thy descendants.'

God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.

"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.