46 Bible Verses about Planting Seeds

For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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

You shall not sow your vineyard with different seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand: for you know not which shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both alike shall be good.

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

He answered and said unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;

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

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which has seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food.

The sower sows the word.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.

And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may by chance be wheat, or of some other grain:

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your material things?

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

He that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.

But others fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

And others fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred.

And in this is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die:

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?

Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and immediately they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

And the earth brought forth vegetation, and plants yielding seed after their kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

But that on the good ground are they, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And these are they by the wayside, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately, and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed its own body.