'Seed' in the Bible

He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever."

"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News,

For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.