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Mark 4:27

WEB

27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

KJV

27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

BSB

27Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

FBV

27He goes to bed and gets up, day after day, but the man has no knowledge of how the seeds sprout and grow.

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Extra References

Ecclesiastes 11:5

5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.


2 Thessalonians 1:3

3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,[+] even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,


Ecclesiastes 8:17

17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.


1 Corinthians 15:37-38

37That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. 38But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.


2 Peter 3:18

18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.


John 3:7-8

7Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ 8The wind[+] blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”