Farming

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow; — read the full passage →

But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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

but God giveth 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 hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:

And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. — read the full passage →

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?

And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.

Hear then ye the parable of the sower.

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.

But thisI say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.