For the earth produces a crop by itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
When the plants sprouted and produced grain, the tares also appeared.
He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.
When the crop is ready, the man immediately sends in the sickle, for the harvest has come.”
I am confident that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord with every desire to please him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;