Bible Verses About Agriculture
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for agriculture, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 757 votes, led by Genesis 1:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Agriculture
Genesis 1:1248 votes
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1 Corinthians 3:6-948 votes
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Hosea 10:1242 votes
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.
Matthew 13:1-1041 votes
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
John 15:134 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Mark 4:2633 votes
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Leviticus 19:1932 votes
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Mark 4:3131 votes
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
Jeremiah 29:530 votes
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Leviticus 19:23-2529 votes
And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
1 Corinthians 3:628 votes
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Deuteronomy 22:9-1025 votes
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
Isaiah 29:1721 votes
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
Leviticus 26:1-518 votes
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
James 5:717 votes
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.
1 Chronicles 4:38-4116 votes
These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
Genesis 2:1515 votes
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Deuteronomy 8:1-2014 votes
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:1-3214 votes
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
1 Chronicles 4:10-4114 votes
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
2 Chronicles 26:1014 votes
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Psalms 104:1414 votes
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Proverbs 12:1114 votes
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-1814 votes
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 5:914 votes
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
What does the Bible say about agriculture?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:12 on the subject of agriculture. Across 757 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:6-9, Hosea 10:12, Matthew 13:1-10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.