Mark 4:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

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  • Mark 4:31-32 : 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth, 32 But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ; 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Thess 3:12-13 : 12 And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you; 13 So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. 12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 2:4-5 : 4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made. 5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Gen 4:11-12 : 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • Matt 13:26 : 26 But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.

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  • Mark 4:29-32
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    29But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

    30And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

    31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

    32But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

    27And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

  • Mark 4:3-8
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    76%

    3A man went out to put seed in the earth:

    4And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food.

    5And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:

    6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.

    7And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.

    8And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.

  • Matt 13:26
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    26But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The seed is the word.

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

    37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

  • John 4:35-37
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    35You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

    36He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

    37In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    74%

    11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

    24And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

  • Luke 8:11
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    11Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

  • Luke 8:7-8
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    7And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.

    8And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

  • Lev 26:4
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    4Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

  • Luke 8:5
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    5A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

  • Matt 13:18
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    18Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

  • Prov 6:8
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    8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

  • Mark 13:28
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    28Take an example from the fig-tree: when its branches become soft and put out their leaves, you see that the summer is near;

  • Mark 4:18
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    18And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Matt 13:30
    71%

    30Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

  • John 12:24
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    24Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

  • Luke 12:16
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    16And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

  • Luke 6:44
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    44For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    71%

    24Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

    25When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

  • Luke 21:30
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    30When they put out their young leaves, you take note of it, and it is clear to you that summer is coming.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • Matt 13:5
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    5And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep: