he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up — he knows not how.
We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.
And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth;
(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)