Mark 4:27

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

ASV

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

LSV

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed springs up and grows, he has not known how;

YLT

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

DBY

and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.

DRC

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

GNV

And shoulde sleepe, and rise vp night and day, and the seede should spring and growe vp, he not knowing howe.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

καὶ καθεύδῃ καὶ ἐγείρηται νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, καὶ ὁ σπόρος βλαστᾷ καὶ μηκύνηται ὡς οὐκ οἶδεν αὐτός.

RP2018

καὶ καθεύδῃ καὶ ἐγείρηται νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, καὶ ὁ σπόρος βλαστάνῃ καὶ μηκύνηται ὡς οὐκ οἶδεν αὐτός.

TR-Boyd

καὶ καθεύδῃ καὶ ἐγείρηται νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, καὶ ὁ σπόρος βλαστάνῃ καὶ μηκύνηται ὡς οὐκ οἶδεν αὐτός.

SCR1894

και καθευδη και εγειρηται νυκτα και ημεραν και ο σπορος βλαστανη και μηκυνηται ως ουκ οιδεν αυτος

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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…
• 1 Corinthians 15:37–38And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
• 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.
• John 3:7–8Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

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