'Seed' in the Bible

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you.

Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

A man went out to put seed in the earth:

The seed is the word.

And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

And all the seven had no seed. Last of all the woman herself came to her death.

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus: