Bible Verses About Agricultural Work

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

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.

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;

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

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

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.

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

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

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

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:

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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

But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

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.

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?

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

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?

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.

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord: