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19 Bible Verses About Planting and Growing

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Summary

  • Genesis 8:22 promises that seedtime and harvest will not cease as long as the earth endures, words God speaks after the flood.
  • In the parable of the sower the seed is the word of God (Luke 8:11), and only the seed on good soil produces a crop.
  • In 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 Paul credits the growth of the Corinthian church to God, not to himself for planting or to Apollos for watering.
  • Galatians 6:7-9 states that a person reaps what they sow and promises a harvest at the proper time to those who do not give up.
  • Jeremiah 17:7-8 describes the one who trusts in the Lord as a tree that keeps bearing fruit in a year of drought.

Planting and growing in the Bible start with the farm year of sowing and harvest. After the flood, God promises that seedtime and harvest will not cease while the earth endures (Genesis 8:22). Jesus uses the same work in his parables; in the parable of the sower the seed is the word of God (Luke 8:11). In Mark 4:26-29 seed sprouts and grows while the sower sleeps, as a picture of the kingdom of God. Paul applies sowing and reaping…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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