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Genesis 3:18-19
You will eat plants from the field, even though the ground produces thorns and prickly weeds.You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”
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Deuteronomy 28:30
You and a woman will promise to marry each other. But another man will take her and rape her. You will build a house. But you won’t live in it. You will plant a vineyard. But you won’t eat a single grape from it.
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Isaiah 28:24-26
When a farmer plows in order to plant, does he plow without stopping? Does he keep on breaking up the soil and making the field level?When he’s made the surface even, doesn’t he plant caraway seeds? Doesn’t he scatter cumin seeds? Doesn’t he plant wheat in its proper place? Doesn’t he plant barley where it belongs? Doesn’t he plant spelt along the edge of the field?His God directs him. He teaches him the right way to do his work.
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1 Corinthians 9 7
Who serves as a soldier but doesn’t get paid? Who plants a vineyard but doesn’t eat any of its grapes? Who takes care of a flock but doesn’t drink any of the milk?
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Proverbs 24:30
I went past the field of someone who didn’t want to work. I went past the vineyard of someone who didn’t have any sense.
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Genesis 4:2
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of sheep. Cain farmed the land.
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Proverbs 12:11
Those who farm their land will have plenty of food. But those who chase dreams have no sense.
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Deuteronomy 20:6
Has anyone planted a vineyard and not started to enjoy it? Let him go home. If he doesn’t, he might die in battle. Then someone else will enjoy his vineyard.
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Genesis 5:29
and named him Noah. Lamech said,“ He will comfort us when we are working. He’ll comfort us when our hands work so hard they hurt. We have to work hard because the Lord put a curse on the ground.”
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Proverbs 10:11
The mouths of those who do right pour out life like a fountain. But the mouths of sinners hide their evil plans.
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Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God drove the man out of the Garden of Eden. He sent the man to farm the ground he had been made from.
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Song of Solomon 1 6
Don’t stare at me because I’m dark. The sun has made my skin look like this. My brothers were angry with me. They made me take care of the vineyards. I haven’t even taken care of my own vineyard.
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Ecclesiastes 5:9
All of them take what the land produces. And the king himself takes his share from the fields.