Bible verses about "seed" | Riverside

⁸ Other seed fell into good ground and grew tall and strong and yielded thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion, ² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago ³ but in due time made known as his message through the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the commission of God our Savior, ⁴ to Titus my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus, our Savior. ⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete: to arrange the things that are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, ⁶ wherever there is a man of irreproachable character, true to one woman, with believing children who are not charged with dissolute conduct and not unruly. ⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate, ⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers. ¹⁰ For there are many insubordinate persons, foolish talkers and deceivers, especially those who are of the circumcision, ¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, base brutes, lazy gluttons." ¹³ This testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him. They are detestable, disobedient, and worthless for any good work.

¹ SHORTLY afterwards he was making his way through cities and villages preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, ² and certain women who had been relieved of evil spirits and infirmities — Mary, who was called Magdalene, out of whom seven demons had gone, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others. These women provided for Jesus and his apostles out of their means. ⁴ When a great multitude was coming together and some from every city were crowding upon him, he spoke to them with an illustration: ⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the roadside and was trodden on, and the birds of heaven ate it up. ⁶ Other seed fell on the rock, and when it sprang up it withered away because it had no moisture. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. ⁸ Other seed fell into the good ground, and grew up and yielded a harvest a hundred fold." When he said this, he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear, hear." ⁹ His disciples kept asking him what the illustration meant. ¹⁰ He said: "To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to the rest the message comes in figures of speech, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand. ¹¹ This is the illustration: The seed is the message of God. ¹² Those by the roadside are those who hear, and then the Devil comes and takes away the message from their hearts so that they may not believe and be saved. ¹³ Those on the rock are those who, though they receive the message with joy, yet have no root, who for a while believe, but in the time of trial desert. ¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion. ¹⁵ That in the good ground means those who with a noble and good heart hear the message and hold it fast and bear fruit in patience. ¹⁶ "No one lights a lamp and hides it with a bowl or puts it under a bed. No, he puts it on a stand so that all who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest, nor secret which will not be known and come to light. ¹⁸ Be careful, then, how you hear; for whoever has, to him will be given, and whoever has not, even what he seems to have will be taken away from him." ¹⁹ His mother and his brothers came where he was, but could not get to him on account of the crowd. ²⁰ It was told him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside wishing to see you." ²¹ He answered, "My mother and my brothers are these who are hearing the word of God and doing it." ²² It happened one day that he got into a boat, and his disciples went with him. He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." They put out. ²³ While they were sailing he fell asleep. A gale of wind came down on the lake and the boat was filling and in peril. ²⁴ Coming to him, they awoke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are going down!" He awoke and rebuked the wind and the waves. They grew quiet and there was a calm. ²⁵ He said to the disciples, "Where is your faith?" They were awed and amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this man who commands the winds and the water and they obey him?" ²⁶ They sailed to the land of the Gerasenes, which is across from Galilee. ²⁷ When he got out on to the land, there met him a certain man from that city who had demons. For a long time he had not worn clothes and had not lived in a house, but in the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and fell down before him, and in a loud voice said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I pray you, do not torment me." ²⁹ For he had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and, though he was bound with chains and fetters and kept under guard, yet bursting his chains he would be driven by the demon off into the wilds. ³⁰ Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. ³¹ They begged him not to bid them go away into the abyss. ³² There was near by a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. The demons begged him to permit them to go into the swine. He gave them leave. ³³ The demons left the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. ³⁴ The herdsmen, seeing what had happened, fled and told it in the city and on the farms. ³⁵ The people came out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were struck with awe. ³⁶ Those who had seen it told them how the demoniac had been cured. ³⁷ Whereupon all the crowd from the region of the Gerasenes asked him to go away from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into a boat and returned. ³⁸ The man from whom the demons had gone out begged him to let him be with him. But he sent him away, saying, ³⁹ "Return to your home and tell how much God has done for you." He went through the whole city proclaiming how much Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ As Jesus came back, a crowd welcomed him, for all were expecting him. ⁴¹ There came a man by the name of Jairus — he was a synagogue director. Falling at the feet of Jesus, he begged him to come to his house ⁴² because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going the crowds pressed around him. ⁴³ A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be cured by any one, ⁴⁴ came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak. At once her hemorrhage ceased. ⁴⁵ Jesus said, "Who is it that touched me?" All denied, and Peter said, "Master, the crowd is pressing upon you on every side." ⁴⁶ Jesus said, "Some one touched me, for I know that power has gone forth from me." ⁴⁷ The woman, seeing that she had not escaped notice, came trembling and fell before him, and told before all the people why she had touched him and how she was instantly cured. ⁴⁸ He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace." ⁴⁹ While he was still speaking some one came from the Director's house, saying, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any longer." ⁵⁰ Jesus heard it and said to him, "Never fear. Only believe and she will be saved." ⁵¹ When he came to the house, he did not permit any one to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the father of the child and her mother. ⁵² All were weeping and wailing for her. He said, "Do not weep. She is not dead, but asleep." ⁵³ They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But he took hold of her hand and said to her, "Little girl, rise up." ⁵⁵ Her spirit returned and at once she stood up. He told them to give her something to eat. ⁵⁶ Her parents were amazed, but he told them not to tell any one of what had happened.

⁶ Remember this, he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts, ²³ for you have been reborn, not from mortal seed but from immortal by the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever." And this is the word of good news that has been brought to you.

²⁰ He said to them, "Because of your lack of faith. I tell you truly, if you have faith like a mustard seed you will say to this mountain, 'Remove from here to there,' and it will remove, and nothing will be impossible for you."

⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap decay; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap life eternal.

³⁶ Thoughtless man! What you yourself sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you sow is not the body that will come, but a mere grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has pleased, and to each kind of seed a body of its own.

³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has pleased, and to each kind of seed a body of its own.

¹ ON that day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. ² Great crowds gathered to him so that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the crowd stood on the shore. ³ He spoke at length to them in illustrations. "A sower," he said, "went out to sow. ⁴ And as he was sowing some seeds fell at the roadside and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵ Others fell on rocky places where they had not much soil, and at once they sprang up because they had no depth of soil. ⁶ But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered. ⁷ Others fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸ Others fell on good ground and made a yield, some of a hundred fold, some of sixty fold, some of thirty fold. ⁹ He who has ears, let him hear." ¹⁰ Then his disciples came to him and said, "Why do you talk to them in figures of speech?" ¹¹ He answered, "Because to you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it is not granted. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given and he will have abundance. But whoever has not, from him will be taken even what he has. ¹³ For this reason I speak to them in figures, because, though they see, they do not see, and though they hear, they do not hear nor understand, ¹⁴ and to them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'You will plainly hear, but you will not understand, and you will clearly look, but you will not see. ¹⁵ For the heart of these people has grown fat, and with their ears they are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed; so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and repent and I should heal them.' ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷ I tell you truly many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see, but they did not see them, and to hear the things you hear, but they did not hear them. ¹⁸ So listen to the story of the sower: ¹⁹ When any one hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the man who receives seed by the roadside. ²⁰ He who received seed on stony ground is he who bears the word and receives it at once with joy, ²¹ yet has no root in himself, but is inconstant, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the message he stumbles and falls. ²² He who received seed among thorns is he who hears the message, but the care of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the message and it becomes fruitless. ²³ He who received seed in good ground is he who hears the message and understands it and makes a yield of a hundred, or sixty, or thirty fold." ²⁴ Another illustration he put before them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ But while people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds through the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ When the blades shot up and formed grain, the weeds also appeared. ²⁷ Then the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where do the weeds come from?' ²⁸ He replied, 'An enemy did this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' ²⁹ He said, 'No, for in gathering up the weeds you might pull up the wheat along with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest. At the time of harvest I will say to the harvesters, Gather up first the weeds and tie them into bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my granary.' " ³¹ Another illustration he put before them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. ³² It is the least of all the seeds, but when it grows up it is greater than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and live in its branches." ³³ Another illustration he spoke to them. "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened." ³⁴ All of these things Jesus spoke to them in illustrations, and without an illustration he spoke nothing to them, ³⁵ to fulfill the words of the prophet when he said, "I will open my mouth in illustrations, I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world." ³⁶ Then leaving the crowds he came into the house, and his disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the illustration of the weeds of the field." ³⁷ He replied, "He who sows the good seeds is the Son of Man. ³⁸ The field is the world. The good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the Evil One. ³⁹ The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the world. The reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ As the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather up from his kingdom all stumbling-blocks and those who practice lawlessness, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. ⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man finds and hides again, and for joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ⁴⁵ "Again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. ⁴⁶ Having found one very precious pearl he went away and sold everything that he had and bought it. ⁴⁷ "Again the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the lake that gathered up every sort. ⁴⁸ But when it was filled they drew it to the beach and sat down and gathered the good into pails, but threw the worthless away. ⁴⁹ So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will come forth and will separate the wicked from among the righteous ⁵⁰ and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁵¹ Have you understood all these things?" They said, "Yes." ⁵² He said to them, "Therefore every scribe educated in the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a householder who brings out from his storehouse new things and old things." ⁵³ When Jesus had finished these illustrations, he went away from that place. ⁵⁴ Then he came to his native place and taught them in their synagogue so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles? ⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶ And his sisters — are they not all here with us? Where then did he get all this?" ⁵⁷ So they fell into mistake about him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house." ⁵⁸ Because of their unbelief he worked there but few miracles.