Bible Verses About Seed

for a ten-acre vineyard will produce only five gallons of wine, and seed from five bushels of grain will yield but half a bushel."

Does a farmer sowing keep plowing forever? Does he never stop breaking up and harrowing his land?

No - when he finishes levelling it, he scatters his dill-seed, sows his cumin, puts wheat in rows, barley where it belongs, and plants buckwheat around the edges;

Happy are you who sow by all streams, letting oxen and donkeys roam freely.

For just as rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return there, but water the earth, causing it to bud and produce, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

They sowed wheat and reaped thorns, they wore themselves out and gained nothing. So be ashamed of your [tiny] harvest, the result of ADONAI's fierce anger.

If you sow righteousness for yourselves, you will reap according to grace. Break up unused ground for yourselves, because it is time to seek ADONAI, till he comes and rains down righteousness upon you.

What the cutter-worms left, the locusts ate; what the locusts left, the grasshoppers ate; what the grasshoppers left, the shearer-worms ate.

The seed-grain is rotting in its furrows; the granaries are deserted, the barns in ruins; because the grain has withered.

You sow much but bring in little; you eat but aren't satisfied; you drink but never have enough; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who works for a living earns wages that are put in a bag full of holes.'"

and I will sow them among the peoples. In distant lands they will remember me; they will rear their children and then return.

I will reject your seed; I will throw dung in your faces, the dung from your festival offerings; and you will be carted off with it.

He told them many things in parables: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.

As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up.

Other seed fell on rocky patches where there was not much soil. It sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow;

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

However, what was sown on rich soil is the one who hears the message and understands it; such a person will surely bear fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirty times what was sown."

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up it is larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the birds flying about come and nest in its branches."

"The parable is this: the seed is God's message.

Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest.

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

Stupid! When you sow a seed, it doesn’t come alive unless it first dies.

Also, what you sow is not the body that will be, but a bare seed of, say, wheat or something else;

but God gives it the body he intended for it; and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

Here’s the point: he who plants sparingly also harvests sparingly.