Genesis 1:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind. God saw that it was good.

¹⁰ »As the rain and the snow come down from the sky, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, ¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

²⁴ He told another illustration, saying: »The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ »While he slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds with the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ »When the blade sprouted and brought forth fruit, it looked like wheat.

²⁸ »The earth gives fruit by itself. First comes the leaf, then the head, then full grain.

⁴⁴ »The identity of a tree is made clear by the fruit it produces. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble.

¹⁰ The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows.