16 Bible Verses about Reaping What You Sow

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John 4:38

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."

John 4:37

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

2 Corinthians 9:6

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.

Matthew 25:24

"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.

Luke 19:21

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.'

Luke 19:22

"'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:

1 Corinthians 15:37

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)

2 Corinthians 9:10

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.

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Galatians 6:7-8

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.

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