Bible Verses About Farming
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for farming, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,092 votes, led by Genesis 1:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Farming
Genesis 1:29149 votes
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
James 5:7124 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.
2 Timothy 2:6117 votes
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
Leviticus 19:19101 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.
Deuteronomy 11:13-1597 votes
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Psalms 104:1487 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;
Exodus 23:10-1180 votes
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
Isaiah 17:10-1172 votes
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Psalms 85:1268 votes
Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
Leviticus 19:23-2567 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 3:667 votes
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Hebrews 13:1665 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Genesis 2:1564 votes
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 1:11-1261 votes
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Isaiah 41:1559 votes
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Matthew 3:1258 votes
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Deuteronomy 22:9-1157 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.
Matthew 13:3-857 votes
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Matthew 13:3056 votes
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.
Luke 3:956 votes
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Leviticus 11:1-4755 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Luke 9:6254 votes
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Matthew 13:1-5853 votes
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
Isaiah 28:2852 votes
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
2 Kings 19:2951 votes
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
What does the Bible say about farming?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of farming. Across 6,092 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 5:7, 2 Timothy 2:6, Leviticus 19:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.