Bible Verses About Agricultural Life

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

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;

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.