planting seeds for the harvest
Psalm Chapter 126:6
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Jeremiah Chapter 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Matthew Chapter 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
John Chapter 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
John Chapter 15:2
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John Chapter 15:3
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John Chapter 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John Chapter 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John Chapter 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John Chapter 15:7
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John Chapter 15:8
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
John Chapter 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John Chapter 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John Chapter 15:11
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John Chapter 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John Chapter 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John Chapter 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John Chapter 15:15
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
John Chapter 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
John Chapter 15:17
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John Chapter 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John Chapter 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John Chapter 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John Chapter 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John Chapter 15:22
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
John Chapter 15:23
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John Chapter 15:24
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John Chapter 15:25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John Chapter 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John Chapter 15:27
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3:7
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3:8
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3:9
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Galatians Chapter 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
James Chapter 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
James Chapter 5:8
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
James Chapter 5:9
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
James Chapter 5:10
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
James Chapter 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.