What does the Bible say about planting seeds?
Never doubt what God can accomplish when you make yourself available to Him. When it comes to planting seeds of faith, it’s not about your eloquence or presentation skills. It’s about the Lord stirring hearts and awakening people from their spiritual slumber. It’s about the Lord bringing life to those who are spiritually dead. Without God’s movement, even your best efforts are in vain. God uses us for His glory to sow the seeds of the gospel, but He alone causes those seeds to grow.
Don’t be discouraged if someone doesn’t immediately place their faith in Christ after you share Jesus with them. God works in His own timing and for His own purposes. He uses their salvation for His glory, just as He uses their rejection for His glory. In all things, He is glorified. Sometimes, a seed planted ten years earlier is what God uses to bring someone to salvation. So keep praying that God will use you and your words for His glory.
Genesis 1:11 (NIV) – “Then God said, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.’ And it was so.”
Matthew 13:3-4 (ESV) – “And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.'”
Mark 4:14 (NLT) – “The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.”
Luke 8:11 (NKJV) – “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.”
John 4:35-36 (NIV) – “Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.”
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (NASB) – “I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.”
Isaiah 55:10-11 (ESV) – “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty.”
Matthew 13:23 (NIV) – “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.”
Galatians 6:7-8 (NKJV) – “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
Psalm 126:5-6 (KJV) – “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
2 Corinthians 9:6 (NLT) – “Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.”
Mark 4:26-27 (ESV) – “And he said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.'”
Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NIV) – “Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.”
John 12:24 (NASB) – “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV) – “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Romans 10:14 (ESV) – “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?”
Acts 1:8 (NKJV) – “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Luke 8:15 (NLT) – “And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.”
2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV) – “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”
Matthew 9:37-38 (ESV) – “Then he said to his disciples, ‘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.'”
Leviticus 26:4 (KJV) – “Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”
Proverbs 11:30 (NASB) – “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.”
Mark 16:15 (NIV) – “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.'”
1 Peter 1:23 (NLT) – “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”
Romans 1:16 (NKJV) – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”
Isaiah 61:11 (ESV) – “For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.”
Colossians 1:6 (NIV) – “That has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.”
Acts 8:4 (NLT) – “But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went.”
Hosea 10:12 (KJV) – “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.”
Philippians 1:6 (NASB) – “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Matthew 13:31-32 (NKJV) – “Another parable He put forth to them, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the Herbs and becomes a tree.'”
Romans 10:17 (ESV) – “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
Luke 10:2 (NIV) – “He told them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.'”
2 Corinthians 9:10 (NLT) – “For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.”
John 15:8 (NKJV) – “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”
Acts 13:47 (NASB) – “For so the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Psalm 1:3 (NIV) – “That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.”
1 Corinthians 9:19 (ESV) – “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.”
Jeremiah 17:8 (NLT) – “They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”
Ephesians 3:17 (NIV) – “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.”
Acts 20:24 (NKJV) – “But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
Isaiah 32:20 (KJV) – “Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.”
Colossians 4:5-6 (ESV) – “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
Matthew 5:16 (NLT) – “In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.”
James 5:7 (NASB) – “Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.”
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NIV) – “Because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.”
Genesis 8:22 (NKJV) – “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”
Philemon 1:6 (ESV) – “And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.”
Luke 13:19 (NLT) – “It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden; it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make nests in its branches.”
2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV) – “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.”
