Mark 4:27

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“Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.”

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BSBPD

“Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 4:27 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:17I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:5As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
  3. John 3:7Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
  4. 1 Corinthians 15:37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
  5. 2 Thessalonians 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
  6. 2 Peter 3:18But 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.

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