Mark 4:28

World English Bible (2000)

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

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  • Mark 4:31-32 : 31 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ; 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Thess 3:12-13 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 2:4-5 : 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens. 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Gen 4:11-12 : 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts. 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
  • Matt 13:26 : 26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

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  • Mark 4:29-32
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    29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

    30He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

    31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

    32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

    27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

  • Mark 4:3-8
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    3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

    4and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

    6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

    8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

  • Matt 13:26
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    26But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

    37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

  • John 4:35-37
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    35Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

    36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    74%

    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

  • Luke 8:15
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    15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

    24He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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

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

    8Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

  • Lev 26:4
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    4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

  • Matt 13:18
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    18"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

  • Prov 6:8
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    8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

  • Mark 13:28
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    28"Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;

  • Mark 4:18
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    18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Matt 13:30
    71%

    30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

  • John 12:24
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    24Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

  • Luke 12:16
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    16He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

  • Luke 6:44
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    44For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    71%

    24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

    25When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

  • Luke 21:30
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    30When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • Matt 13:5
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    5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.