Mark 4:26

²⁴He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

⁶I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. ⁷So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

²³having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. ²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; ²⁵but the Lord’s word endures forever.”This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

¹¹“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

⁵“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

²⁰Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

¹⁸Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹⁸Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

³“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. ⁴As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds^[+] came and devoured it.

²⁴Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.