Seed Time and Harvest

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”