The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up.

The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of the River, And everything sown by the River, Will wither, be driven away, and be no more.

Then He will give the rain for your seed With which you sow the ground, And bread of the increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed In large pastures.

"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent it.

Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added [to them.]

However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodder, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about?

If we have sown spiritual things for you, [is it] a great thing if we reap your material things?