Luk 8:5, 11, Joh 4:36-38, 12:24, 1Cor 3:6-9, Jam 3:18, 1Pe 1:23-25 | ESV | STEP | A sower went out to sow his seed . And as he sowed , some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot , and the birds of the air devoured it .

Luke 8:5

5 ^a“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

Luke 8:11

11 ^bNow the parable is this: The seed is ^cthe word of God.

John 4:36-38

36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that ^dsower and ^ereaper ^fmay rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ^g‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap ^hthat for which you did not labor. Others have labored, ⁱand you have entered into their labor.”

John 12:24

24 Truly, truly, I say to you, ^junless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

6 ^kI planted, ^lApollos watered, ^mbut God gave the growth. 7 So ⁿneither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each ^owill receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are ^pGod’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, ^qGod’s building.

James 3:18

18 And ^ra harvest of righteousness ^sis sown in peace by those who make peace.

1 Peter 1:23-25

23 ^tsince you have been born again, ^unot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through ^vthe living and abiding word of God; 24 for

^w“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 ^xbut the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word ^yis the good news that was preached to you.