In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.

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10 Now [a]may He who (A)supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, [b]supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your (B)righteousness, 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, (C)which causes thanksgiving through us to God.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 9:10 NU omits may
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:10 NU will supply

10 “For (A)as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,

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“You have (A)sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And (B)he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! Go up to the (C)mountains and bring wood and build the [a]temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. (D)You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, (E)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. 10 Therefore (F)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 For I (G)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on (H)all the labor of your hands.”

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  1. Haggai 1:8 Lit. house

12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy;
(A)Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord,
Till He (B)comes and rains righteousness on you.

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The Cheerful Giver

(A)But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [a]bountifully will also reap [b]bountifully.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings

11 (A)But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ says the Lord of hosts.

12 ‘For(B) the [a]seed shall be prosperous,
The vine shall give its fruit,
(C)The ground shall give her increase,
And (D)the heavens shall give their dew—
I will cause the remnant of this people
To possess all these.

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  1. Zechariah 8:12 Lit. seed of peace

36 (A)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that (B)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: (C)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; (D)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

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Watering, Working, Warning

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but (A)ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? (B)I planted, (C)Apollos watered, (D)but God gave the increase. So then (E)neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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17 (A)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail (B)in all the labors of your hands; (C)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord. 18 ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from (D)the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it: 19 (E)Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will (F)bless you.’ ”

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Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. (A)Convince, (B)rebuke, (C)exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

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The Parable of the Growing Seed

26 And He said, (A)“The kingdom of God is as if a man should [a]scatter seed on the ground, 27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and (B)grow, he himself does not know how. 28 For the earth (C)yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain ripens, immediately (D)he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

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  1. Mark 4:26 sow

10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your (B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

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Death Comes to All

For I [a]considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: (A)that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 9:1 Lit. put

20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to (A)the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And (B)the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and (C)turned to the Lord.

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