28 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow
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Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,
because the one 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 worked, and you have entered into their work."
If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?
And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.
For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'
Now [the point is] this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.
And this [shall be] the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants this year, and in the second year self-seeded plants, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.
And the one who had received the one talent came up also [and] said, 'Master, [because I] knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from 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 you reap what you did not sow!'
He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.
He said to him, '{By your own words} I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.
You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; [you will tread] grapes, but you will not drink wine.
And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.
{You shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee}; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines.
And you will sow [in] the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat [the] old [yield].
Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow,
Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?
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Tell [the] innocent that [it is] good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! [It is] bad! For what is done [by] his hands will be done to him.
Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you. You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors.
"For the day of Yahweh [is] near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your [own] head. For just as you have drunk on {my holy mountain}, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as [if] they had never been.
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap, because the one 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.
[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
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Genesis 45:6For these two years the famine [has been] in the midst of the land, but [there will be] five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.
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