28 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

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

Those who weep while they plant will sing for joy while they harvest.

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

"And this will be your sign, Hezekiah: Eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

"Because they sow the wind, they will reap the wind storm. The plant has no stalk and its bud yields no grain. Even if there's a harvest, foreigners will gobble it up.

It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

"Then the one who had received one talent came forward and said, "Master, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you haven't planted and gathering where you haven't scattered any seed.

because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn't deposit and harvest what you didn't plant.'

Whoever keeps staring at the wind won't sow; whoever daydreams won't reap.

Whoever sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the anger he uses for a weapon will be destroyed.

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

You'll plant, but you won't reap. You'll crush the olive harvest, but you'll have no oil to anoint yourself. You'll tread out the grapes, but you'll never drink wine.

You fool! The seed you plant does not come to life unless it dies,

and what you plant is not the form that it will be, but a bare kernel, whether it is wheat or something else.

Evil people earn deceptive wages, but those who plant righteousness are truly rewarded.

The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines

That way, you are to sow in the eighth year, eating the produce from the old harvest. Until the ninth year when its produce comes in, you'll eat from the old harvest."

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

Now he who supplies seed to the farmer and bread to eat will also supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest that results from your righteousness.

Consider the crows. They don't plant or harvest, they don't even have a storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!