I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow.

And He said to His disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through the signs following. Amen.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth.

You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.

You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your trenches drip with fertility.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

There shall be an abundance of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.

The hills were covered with its shade, and its boughs were like mighty cedars.

Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, please judge between Me and My vineyard.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

In that day sing to her, a vineyard of desirable wine.

I, Jehovah, keep it; I will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he loosen and harrow his ground?

For God instructs him to do right; and teaches him.

Bread flour is ground. But one does not continue treading and threshing it; nor does he destroy it with his cart wheel; nor pulverize it with his horse.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send free the feet of the ox and the ass.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Yet I planted you a noble vine, a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

That which was sown on stony places, this is he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy;

And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the Word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

But when the grain had sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Do you want us then to go and gather them up?

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.

Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.

Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For the kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

They said to him, Because no one hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.

And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

And when they had received it, they murmured against the landowner,

But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

And when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority do You do these things? And who gave You this authority?

The immersion of John; where was it from? From Heaven or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From Heaven, He will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?

So they answered Jesus and said, We do not know. And He said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

He answered and said, I will not, but afterward he regretted it and went.

Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.

Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.

And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son.

So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

They said to Him, He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will deliver to him the fruits in their seasons.

Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

And He said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.

Do you not say, There are yet four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest.

For in this the saying is true: One sows and another reaps.

I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for apart from Me there is not a thing you are able to do.

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall happen unto you.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

The stone which the builders have rejected has become the Head of the corner.

In that day I will raise up the covert of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by My name, declares Jehovah who does this.

And speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Behold, the Man whose name is THE BRANCH. And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Jehovah.

Even He shall build the temple of Jehovah; and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between the two of them.

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this Rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against It.

This is the Stone which was counted as nothing by you builders, which has become the Head of the Corner.

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone,

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.