16 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

"Then the man who had received the one talent came up and said: "'Master, I knew you were a hard man, reaping where you had not sown, and gathering where you had not scattered;

"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?