28 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

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John 4:38

I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

John 4:37

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

2 Corinthians 9:6

But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Isaiah 37:30

And this shall be the sign to thee. Ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same, and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Matthew 25:24

And the man who received the one talent also having come, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou are a hard man, reaping where thou did not sow, and gathering from where thou did not scatter.

Luke 19:21

For I was afraid of thee because thou are an austere man. Thou take up what thou did not lay down, and reap what thou did not sow.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Luke 19:22

He says to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, thou evil bondman. Thou had known that I am an austere man taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Micah 6:15

Thou shall sow, but shall not reap, thou shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint thee with oil, and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.

1 Corinthians 15:37

And what thou sow, thou do not sow the body that it will become, but a bare grain, if it may happen of wheat, or of some other kind.

Leviticus 25:11

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.

Leviticus 25:22

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage.

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Isaiah 3:10-11

Say ye of the righteous, that [it is] well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Hosea 10:12-13

Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you. Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye have reaped iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies. For thou trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Obadiah 1:15-16

For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head. For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

Galatians 6:7-8

Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap. Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

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