28 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

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John 4:38

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

John 4:37

For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

2 Corinthians 9:6

Now [the point is] this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Hosea 10:12

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.

Isaiah 37:30

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.

Hosea 8:7

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.

Matthew 25:24

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].

Luke 19:21

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!'

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.

Luke 19:22

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.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

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.

Micah 6:15

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.

1 Corinthians 15:37

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.

Leviticus 25:11

{You shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee}; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines.

Leviticus 25:22

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].

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Isaiah 3:10-11

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.

Hosea 10:12-13

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.

Obadiah 1:15-16

"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.

Galatians 6:7-8

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.

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Genesis 45:6

For 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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