Verse 20

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
  • Isa 30:23-24 : 23 Then 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. 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 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, 11 so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 And more believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.
  • 1 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 For 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? 10 Or 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. 11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
  • Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 They shall turn the rivers away; the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.