Sowing Seeds

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He said, “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, — read the full passage →

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

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

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. — read the full passage →

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

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

As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? — read the full passage →

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, — read the full passage →

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

“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.”’”

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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.”

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.’

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. — read the full passage →

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, — read the full passage →

It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →