30 Scriptures for Farmers
God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:25 NLT)
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. (Genesis 8:22)
“And the Lord has greatly blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The Lord has given him flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.” (Genesis 24:35 NLT)
May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness – an abundance of grain and new wine. (Genesis 27:28)
The Lord has conquered this whole area for the community of Israel, and it is ideally suited for all our livestock. (Numbers 32:4 NLT)
You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth. None of your men or women will be childless, and all your livestock will bear young. (Deuteronomy 7:14 NLT)
When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. (Deuteronomy 8:10)
And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. (Deuteronomy 11:13-15)
The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land. (Deuteronomy 28:8)
The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. (Deuteronomy 28:12)
“The Lord your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and he will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the Lord will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.” (Deuteronomy 30:9 NLT)
But ask the animals what they think – let them teach you; let the birds tell you what’s going on. Put your ear to the earth – learn the basics. Listen – the fish in the ocean will tell you their stories. Isn’t it clear that they all know and agree that God is sovereign, that he holds all things in his hand? (Job 12:7-12)
I do not need bulls from your farms or goats from your flocks; all the animals in the forest are mine, and the cattle on thousands of hills. All the wild birds are mine and all living things in the fields. (Psalm 50:9-11)
Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation. (Psalm 79:13)
You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor. You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth— wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength. (Psalm 104:13-15 NLT)
The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel. (Proverbs 12:10 NLT)
Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest. (Proverbs 20:4)
Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. (Proverbs 21:5)
Be sure you know the conditions of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations. (Proverbs 27:34-35)
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. (Ecclesiastes 11:4)
Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both. (Ecclesiastes 11:6)
The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. (Isaiah 28:26)
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher and he gives the farmer great wisdom. (Isaiah 28:29 NLT)
Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock. (Isaiah 30:23 NLT)
But I will bless the person who puts his trust in me. He is like a tree growing near a stream and sending out roots to the water. It is not afraid when hot weather comes, because its leaves stay green; it has no worries when there is no rain; it keeps on bearing fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. (Hosea 10:12 JKV)
The threshing places will be full of grain; the pits beside the presses will overflow with wine and olive oil. I will give you back what you lost in the years when swarms of locusts ate your crops. (Joel 2:24-25)
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amos 9:13 KJV)
The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. (1 Corinthians 3:8)
Fill your minds with those things that are good and deserve praise; things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and honorable. Put into practice what you learned and received from me, both from my words and from my actions. And the God who gives us peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:8-9)
