2 Corinthians 9:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now he who supplies seed to the sower also provides bread for your food, and multiplies your seed sown, and increases the fruits of your righteousness;

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  • Isa 55:10 : 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
  • Hos 10:12 : 12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
  • Matt 6:1 : 1 Be careful not to do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all people, just as we do toward you:
  • 1 Thess 4:10 : 10 And indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 47:19 : 19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both will be equally good.
  • Gen 47:23-24 : 23 Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the harvest, that you shall give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

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  • 2 Cor 9:5-9
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    5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brethren, that they would go ahead to you and prepare in advance your generous gift, which had been promised before, that it might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not as of covetousness.

    6But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

    7Every man according to what he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or out of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

    8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work:

    9As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever.

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    11Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which through us produces thanksgiving to God.

    12For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but is also abundant through many thanksgivings to God;

    13While by the evidence of this ministry they glorify God for your professed submission to the gospel of Christ, and for your generous sharing with them, and with all men;

  • 37And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

  • 1 Cor 9:9-11
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    9For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen?

    10Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

  • 23Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

  • 9He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • 1 Cor 3:6-9
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    6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

    7So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.

    8Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.

  • 10For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

  • 12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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    14But by equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, and their abundance may supply your lack, that there may be equality:

    15As it is written, 'He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.'

  • 7Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

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    24There is one who scatters, and yet increases; and there is one who withholds more than is right, and it leads to poverty.

    25The generous soul shall be made rich, and he who waters shall be watered also himself.

  • 8For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • 6The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

  • 14The sower sows the word.

  • 5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.

  • 15And he will take a tenth of your grain, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.

  • 14Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

  • 28For the earth yields fruit by itself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

  • 38Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.

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

  • Prov 3:9-10
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    9Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase:

    10So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

  • 26And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

  • 12Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

  • 16And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully.

  • 10You water its ridges abundantly; You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless its growth.

  • 37And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.

  • 8And other fell on good ground, and yielded fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred.

  • 12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

  • 3And He told them many things in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went out to sow.

  • 3Listen; behold, a sower went out to sow:

  • 7With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • 6Let him who is taught in the word share with him who teaches in all good things.

  • 9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.