31 Bible Verses about Spilling Your Seed On The Ground

But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he had sexual relations with his brother's wife, he withdrew prematurely so as not to give his brother a descendant.

Then Judah said to Onan, "Have sexual relations with your brother's wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother."

What he did was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord killed him too.

I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

"'When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

He will pour the water out of his buckets, and their descendants will be like abundant water; their king will be greater than Agag, and their kingdom will be exalted.

But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them "humankind."

The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls, 'Deliverance,' and your gates, 'Praise.'

You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile with overflowing streams full of water. You provide grain for them, for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Yes, the Lord has this to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: "Like a farmer breaking up hard unplowed ground, you must break your rebellious will and make a new beginning; just as a farmer must clear away thorns lest the seed is wasted, you must get rid of the sin that is ruining your lives.

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: "I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the Lord, create it.