Isaiah 32:20
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20 Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,
who let the ox and the donkey range freely.(A)
Ecclesiastes 11:1
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The Value of Diligence
11 Send out your bread upon the waters,
for after many days you will get it back.(A)
Isaiah 30:23-24
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23 He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,(A) 24 and the oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat silage that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
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Isaiah 55:10-11
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10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,(A)
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.(B)
James 3:18
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18 And the fruit of righteousness[a] is sown in peace by those who make peace.(A)
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- 3.18 Or justice
1 Corinthians 9:9-11
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9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?(A) 10 Or does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was indeed written for our sake, for whoever plows should plow in hope and whoever threshes should thresh in hope of a share in the crop. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we harvest material[a] things?(B)
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- 9.11 Gk fleshly
1 Corinthians 3:6
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6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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Acts 5:14
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14 Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women,
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Acts 4:4
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4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and they numbered about five thousand.(A)
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Acts 2:41
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41 So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.
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Isaiah 19:5-7
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5 The waters of the Nile will be dried up,
and the river will be parched and dry;(A)
6 its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up.
Reeds and rushes will rot away,(B)
7 the reeds beside the Nile;[a]
all that is sown by the Nile will dry up,
be driven away, and be no more.
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- 19.7 Gk: Heb beside the Nile, beside the mouth of the Nile
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