Farming

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. — read the full passage →

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. — read the full passage →

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.