100+ Bible Quotes About Farming: Timeless Wisdom for Life & Work

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

The one who sows to please his sinful nature will from that nature reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest will never cease.

You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and new wine, but not drink wine.

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom.

The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil.

The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

First the stalk, then the head, after that the full kernel in the head.

The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

The seed falling among thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof.

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.

And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly.

Take every thought captive to obey Christ.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.

He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.

You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

He will be like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.

On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.

For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the produce.

But during the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord.

Do not reap your field to the very edges, and do not gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.

And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not remain in me, they are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

Every branch that bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us.

But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

He told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, he will grow like a cedar of Lebanon.

Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.

Proclaiming that he who rules in righteousness over men, ruling in the fear of God, is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.

Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.

You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.

Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of the servants to give them their food at the proper time?

It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.

Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.

Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.

Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.

And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?

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

Yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can nest in its shade.

And he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.

Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains.

If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.

Nothing will be impossible for you.

The one who reaps draws a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!

His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.

For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.