28 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

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

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

"This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, 'Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.'

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed -- whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed -- perhaps of wheat or something else.

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year's produce -- old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce.

And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.

Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!