20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.

For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;

and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--

When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.