20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows after vain persons will have poverty.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows worthless people lacks sense.

All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.

The wasteland will be cultivated. It will no longer remain empty for everyone passing by to see.

You, your sons, and your servants will farm the land for your master Saul's family and bring in the harvest. This will provide food for them. Mephibosheth will always be a guest at my table. Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

A king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.

I am for you. I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks! Nation will not lift up sword against nation and they will not learn war any more!

a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.

Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

Do not plow with a bull and a donkey together.

Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.

Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.

The famine has been in the land for two years. There will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.