46 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

Because of the sowing of peace, The vine doth give her fruit, And the earth doth give her increase, And the heavens do give their dew, And I have caused the remnant of this people To inherit all these.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

Thou dost not sow thy vineyard with divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.

In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

And he answering said to them, 'He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,

'And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

He who is sowing doth sow the word;

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,

If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

'And other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it did wither, through not having moisture.

Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not.

and others fell upon the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.

'Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

And it taketh of the seed of the land, And doth put it in a field of seed, To take by many waters, In a conspicuous place it hath set it.

And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

And Joseph saith unto the people, 'Lo, I have bought you to-day and your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground,

unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

And He hath given rain for thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.

'The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it.

And he answering said, 'Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth,

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,

'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed is in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that it is good;

And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.

and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.

which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sown the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, With seed of man, and seed of beast.

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.