16 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow
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Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.
I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.
For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'
But do not forget that he who sows with a niggardly hand will also reap a niggardly crop, and that he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
"But, next, the man who had the one talent in his keeping came and said, "'Sir, I knew you to be a severe man, reaping where you had not sown and garnering what you had not winnowed.
For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'
"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be)
And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness.
And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.
Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!
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Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.
You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.
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Matthew 6:26Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you of much greater value than they?
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