Mark 4:28

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

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  • Mark 4:31-32 : 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth. 32 But when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight. 10 So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ. 11 Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • 1 Thess 3:12-13 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you. 13 So that He may strengthen your hearts to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 2:4-5 : 4 These are the records of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 5 No bush of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to work the ground.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 The LORD God caused every tree that is beautiful in appearance and good for food to grow out of the ground, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Gen 4:11-12 : 11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.' 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. 14 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 The path of the righteous is like the morning light, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up in the sight of all the nations.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to know Him. His coming is as certain as the dawn, and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.
  • Matt 13:26 : 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, the weeds also appeared.

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  • Mark 4:29-32
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    29As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle because the harvest has come.

    30He also said, 'To what can we compare the kingdom of God? Or with what parable can we illustrate it?'

    31It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

    32But when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.

  • Mark 4:26-27
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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.

  • Mark 4:3-8
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    3Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

    5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it didn’t have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

    6But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it didn’t produce any grain.

    8Still other seed fell on good soil. It grew, producing fruit that increased and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown.

  • Matt 13:26
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    26When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, the weeds also appeared.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36Foolish one, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

    37And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • John 4:35-37
    3 verses
    74%

    35Do you not say, 'There are still four months until harvest'? Look, I tell you: Lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest already.

    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.'

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so.

    12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20But those sown on good ground are the ones who hear the word, welcome it, and produce fruit—some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was sown.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15But the seed on good soil represents those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and produce a harvest through perseverance.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8Still other seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears and understands the word. This person produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.

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

  • Luke 8:11
    73%

    11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

  • Luke 8:7-8
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    7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

    8Still other seed fell on good soil, grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times what was sown. As He said this, He cried out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."

  • Lev 26:4
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    4then I will provide your rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

  • Luke 8:5
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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.

  • Matt 13:18
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    18So listen to the parable of the sower.

  • Prov 6:8
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    8yet she prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provisions at harvest.

  • Mark 13:28
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    28Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and its leaves sprout, you know that summer is near.

  • Mark 4:18
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    18Others are like the seed sown among thorns: these are the ones who hear the word,

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Matt 13:30
    71%

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.”’

  • Jas 5:7
    71%

    7Therefore, be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

  • John 12:24
    71%

    24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.

  • Luke 12:16
    71%

    16And He told them a parable, saying, "The land of a certain rich man produced a bountiful harvest.

  • Luke 6:44
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    44Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from bramble bushes.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    71%

    24Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continually break up and harrow his ground?

    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?

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

  • Gal 6:8
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    8The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Even if its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

  • Luke 21:30
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    30When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves, and know that summer is near.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

  • Matt 13:5
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    5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where there was not much soil. They sprouted quickly because the soil was not deep.