He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.
He also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
For the earth produces a crop by itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly increasing and the love that every one of you has for one another is abounding.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.