Seed
47 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
39 sections
- Difference Between, and the Plant Which Grows from It,
- Each Kind Has Its own Body
- Each Kind of, Has Its own Body
- Every Herb, Tree and Grass Yields Its Own
- Every Herb, Tree, and Grass, Yields Its Own
- Illustrative
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: Different Kinds of, not to be Sown in the Same Field
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: If Dry, Exempted from Uncleanness Though Touched by An
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: If Wet, Rendered Unclean by Contact with an Unclean Thing
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: Not to be Sown During the Sabbatical Year
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: Not to be Sown in Year of Jubilee
- Mosaic Laws Respecting: The Tithe of, to be Given to God
- Not to be Mingled in Sowing
- Often Sown Beside Rivers
- Often Trodden Into the Ground, by the Feet of Oxen
- Parables Concerning
- Required to be Watered by the Rain
- Sowing of Necessary to Its Productiveness
- Sowing of Often Attended with Danger
- Sowing of Often Attended with Great Waste
- Sowing of Required Constant Diligence
- Sowing of Time For, Called Seed Time
- Sowing of, Type of Burial of the Body
- Sowing, Illustrative of Christian Liberality
- Sowing, Illustrative of Men's Works Producing a Corresponding Recompence
- Sowing, Illustrative of Preaching the Gospel
- Sowing, Illustrative of Scattering or Dispersing a People
- Sowing, Illustrative of The Burial of the Body
- Sowing, Illustrative of The Death of Christ and Its Effects
- Spiritual Life
- The Ground Carefully Ploughed, and Prepared For
- The Jews Punished by Its Being Choked by Thorns
- The Jews Punished by Its Increase Being Consume by Enemies
- The Jews Punished by Its Increase Being Consumed by Locusts
- The Jews Punished by Its Rotting in the Ground
- The Jews Punished by Its Yielding but Little Increase
- The Word of God
- Yearly Return of Time of Sowing, Secured by Covenant
- Yielded an Abundant Increase in Canaan
Difference Between, and the Plant Which Grows from It,
- 1 Corinthians 15:37–38 And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. …
Each Kind Has Its own Body
- 1 Corinthians 15:38 But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
Each Kind of, Has Its own Body
- 1 Corinthians 15:38 But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
Every Herb, Tree and Grass Yields Its Own
- Genesis 1:11–12 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. …
- Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Every Herb, Tree, and Grass, Yields Its Own
- Genesis 1:11–12 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. …
- Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Illustrative
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- 2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Galatians 6:7–8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. …
Mosaic Laws Respecting: Different Kinds of, not to be Sown in the Same Field
- Leviticus 19:19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled — both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
Mosaic Laws Respecting: If Dry, Exempted from Uncleanness Though Touched by An
- Leviticus 11:37 If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
Mosaic Laws Respecting: If Wet, Rendered Unclean by Contact with an Unclean Thing
- Leviticus 11:38 but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Mosaic Laws Respecting: Not to be Sown During the Sabbatical Year
- Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land — a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Leviticus 25:20 Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
Mosaic Laws Respecting: Not to be Sown in Year of Jubilee
- Leviticus 25:11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
Mosaic Laws Respecting: The Tithe of, to be Given to God
- Leviticus 27:30 Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Not to be Mingled in Sowing
- Leviticus 19:19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled — both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
Often Sown Beside Rivers
- Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
Often Trodden Into the Ground, by the Feet of Oxen
- Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
Parables Concerning
- Matthew 13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea.
- Luke 8:1 Soon afterward, Jesus traveled from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,
Required to be Watered by the Rain
- Isaiah 55:10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Sowing of Necessary to Its Productiveness
- John 12:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
- 1 Corinthians 15:36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
Sowing of Often Attended with Danger
- Psalm 126:5–6 Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. …
Sowing of Often Attended with Great Waste
- Matthew 13:4–5 And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. …
- Matthew 13:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Sowing of Required Constant Diligence
- Ecclesiastes 11:4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Sowing of Time For, Called Seed Time
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Sowing of, Type of Burial of the Body
- 1 Corinthians 15:36–38 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. …
Sowing, Illustrative of Christian Liberality
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- 2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
Sowing, Illustrative of Men's Works Producing a Corresponding Recompence
- Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
- Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Galatians 6:7–8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. …
Sowing, Illustrative of Preaching the Gospel
- Matthew 13:3 And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
- Matthew 13:32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
- 1 Corinthians 9:11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
Sowing, Illustrative of Scattering or Dispersing a People
- Zechariah 10:9 Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
Sowing, Illustrative of The Burial of the Body
- 1 Corinthians 15:36–38 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. …
Sowing, Illustrative of The Death of Christ and Its Effects
- John 12:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Spiritual Life
- 1 John 3:9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
The Ground Carefully Ploughed, and Prepared For
- Isaiah 28:24–25 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil? …
The Jews Punished by Its Being Choked by Thorns
- Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- Matthew 13:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
The Jews Punished by Its Increase Being Consume by Enemies
- Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
The Jews Punished by Its Increase Being Consumed by Locusts
- Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Joel 1:4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
The Jews Punished by Its Rotting in the Ground
- Joel 1:17 The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
- Malachi 2:3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
The Jews Punished by Its Yielding but Little Increase
- Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Haggai 1:6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
The Word of God
- Luke 8:11 Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
- 1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Yearly Return of Time of Sowing, Secured by Covenant
- Genesis 8:21–22 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living …
Yielded an Abundant Increase in Canaan
- Genesis 26:12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- Matthew 13:23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.