Isaiah 32:20

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

You will know also that your offspring will be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

The farmer sows the word.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.