Bible Verses About Sower

Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness--a true reward.

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

Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie in its own border?

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

For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none--a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield--strangers do swallow it up.

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 he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them,

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

and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through not having root, they withered,

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

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

`Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;

and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;

and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,

and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;

and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;

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.'

And he said to them, `He who is having ears to hear--let him hear.'

And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

He who is sowing doth sow the word;