16 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

For here the saying holds good, 'One sows, another reaps.'

Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.

And the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Sir, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered where you had not threshed,

for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;

and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else;

The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!