20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, shall have poverty enough.

And the LORD God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.

and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.

And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."

He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, is a very fool.

And as for all hills that now are hewn down, thou shalt not come upon them, for fear of briers and thorns. But the cattle shall be driven thither, and the sheep shall feed there."

The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.

See therefore that thou and thy sons and thy servants till the land for him, and bring in, that thy master's son may have food to eat. For Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat meat always upon my table." For this Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

The whole land also with the fields and all that is therein, is in subjection and bondage unto the king.

Behold, I come unto you, and unto you will I turn me, that ye may be tilled and sown.

And shall give sentence among the multitude of the Heathen and reform the people of far countries: so that of their swords they shall make plowshares, and scythes of their spears. One people shall not lift up a sword against another, yea they shall no more learn to fight.

there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,

Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?

Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.

A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.

For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."

For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.