Hebrews 6:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it repeatedly and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

Cross References

Genesis 1:11

Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.

Genesis 27:27

So he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.

Psalm 126:6

Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.

Psalm 24:5

They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from the God of their salvation.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Leviticus 25:21

I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.

Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.

Matthew 7:8

For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

2 Timothy 2:6

It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.

James 5:7

Be patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.