Isaiah 28:24

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Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continually break up and harrow his ground?

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  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.
  • Hos 10:11-12 : 11 Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, but I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim; Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground. 12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and showers His righteousness on you.

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    25When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow black cumin and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in rows, barley in its place, and spelt in its own plot?

  • Isa 28:27-28
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    27For black cumin is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin. Instead, black cumin is beaten with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

    28Grain must be ground to make bread, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of a cart roll over it and its horses trample it, they do not crush it entirely.

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The sower sows the word.

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23He will also send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

    24The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26He also said, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man scatters seed on the ground.

    27He sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

    28The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and showers His righteousness on you.

  • Jer 4:3
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    3For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3Listen! A sower went out to sow.

  • Job 38:27
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    27to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6Sow your seed in the morning and do not withhold your hand in the evening, for you do not know which will prosper—whether this or that, or if both will equally thrive.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Matt 13:24
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    24Jesus presented another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

  • Jer 14:4
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    4Because the ground is cracked due to the lack of rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

  • Job 4:8
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    8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They sowed fields and planted vineyards, which yielded a fruitful harvest.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

  • Matt 13:27-29
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    27The servants of the landowner came to him and said, 'Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?'

    28He replied, 'An enemy did this.' The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'

    29‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling up the weeds, you might uproot the wheat with them.

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    5A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was stepped on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

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    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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    3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.

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    19Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but the one who chases worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who serves as a soldier at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

  • Prov 12:11
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    11Those who work their land will have plenty of food, but those who chase fantasies lack sense.

  • Isa 28:23
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    23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear my words.

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

  • Job 31:38
    68%

    38If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

  • Job 38:38
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    38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Matt 13:18
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    38You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

  • Ps 65:10
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    10You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.

  • Isa 55:10
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  • John 4:36-37
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    67%

    36The one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'

  • Jer 5:24
    67%

    24They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rains in their season—the early and late rains—and who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.'

  • Job 13:25
    67%

    25Will You terrify a wind-driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

  • Deut 25:4
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    4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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    20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, letting the oxen and the donkey roam freely.

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    12Can you rely on it to bring back your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

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    6The one who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will surely return with joyful shouting, carrying their sheaves.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.