Bible verses about Farming
Verses about sowing, reaping and the patient labour of growing food.
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2:15By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:19When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Leviticus 19:9You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:10then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
Deuteronomy 11:14May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
Ruth 2:12You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Psalms 65:9You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
Psalms 65:10You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
Psalms 65:11He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
Proverbs 10:5The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
Proverbs 12:11Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Ecclesiastes 11:6Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
Isaiah 28:24When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
Isaiah 28:25For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
Isaiah 28:26For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Isaiah 55:10Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Hosea 10:12Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
John 4:35I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
1 Corinthians 3:6So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 3:7He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
1 Corinthians 3:8Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
2 Timothy 2:6Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
James 5:7