23 Bible Verses About Gardening

In the Bible, gardening is work God gave people before the fall. He put the man in the garden he had planted in Eden “to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15). Other passages set its seasons (Genesis 8:22), rest the land every seventh year (Leviticus 25:4), and tell the exiles in Babylon to plant gardens (Jeremiah 29:5). Jesus’ parables of seed and soil (Matthew 13:8; Mark 4:28), Paul’s planting and watering (1 Corinthians 3:6-7) and the prophets’…