Mark 4:29

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And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 3:13 : 13 Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great!
  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
  • Matt 13:40-43 : 40 As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith! 8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
  • Rev 14:13-17 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Write this:‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’”“Yes,” says the Spirit,“so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.” 14 Then I looked, and a white cloud appeared, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man! He had a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!” 16 So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
  • Job 5:26 : 26 You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil. 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 4:28
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    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • Mark 4:30-32
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    79%

    30The Parable of the Mustard Seed He also asked,“To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

    31It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground–

    32when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”

  • John 4:35-37
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    35Don’t you say,‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

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

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • Rev 14:15-19
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    15Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”

    16So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

    17Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

    18Another angel, who was in charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle,“Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes off the vine of the earth, because its grapes are now ripe.”

    19So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes from the vineyard of the earth and tossed them into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

  • Matt 21:34
    76%

    34When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.

  • Matt 13:26
    76%

    26When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.

  • Joel 3:13
    75%

    13Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great!

  • Mark 4:3-8
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    3“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

    8But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

  • Mark 4:14-15
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    14The sower sows the word.

    15These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

  • Mark 13:28-29
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    28The Parable of the Fig Tree“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

    29So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

  • Luke 21:29-31
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    29The Parable of the Fig Tree Then he told them a parable:“Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.

    30When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near.

    31So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

  • Matt 13:29-31
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    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

    31The Parable of the Mustard Seed He gave them another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

  • Matt 24:32
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    32The Parable of the Fig Tree“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

  • Mark 4:26
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

  • Luke 3:9
    72%

    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Luke 13:9
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    9Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

  • Luke 6:44
    72%

    44for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

  • Mark 4:20
    72%

    20But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

  • Matt 13:24
    71%

    24The Parable of the Weeds He presented them with another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    71%

    6Warning to Israel to Bear Fruit Then Jesus told this parable:“A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

    7So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard,‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

  • Luke 8:15
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    15But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

  • Matt 13:4
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    4And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Matt 13:39
    71%

    39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

  • Job 24:6
    71%

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Matt 3:10
    71%

    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Luke 8:11
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    11“Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

  • Mark 4:17
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    17But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.