¹⁰ And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

¹² Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

¹⁰ And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

¹² And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

¹⁷ Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

⁶ But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

¹ Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

⁶ In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

¹⁸ The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

¹⁹ Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

¹² And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

²³ Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

²⁴ And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.