Galatians 6:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

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  • Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
  • Rom 6:21-22 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. 22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
  • Job 4:8 : 8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. 6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
  • Hos 10:13 : 13 You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.
  • Luke 18:30 : 30 Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
  • John 4:36 : 36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
  • Jude 1:21 : 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.
  • Titus 3:7 : 7 So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
  • John 6:27 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

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  • Gal 6:6-7
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    6But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

    7Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

  • Gal 6:9
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    9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

    37In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

  • Rom 8:9-13
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    9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • Rom 8:5-6
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    5For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

    6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

  • 1 Cor 9:11
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    11If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

    37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • Job 4:8
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    8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

  • Rom 2:6
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    6Who will give to every man his right reward:

  • Hos 8:7
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    7For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Prov 10:16
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    16The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 1 Cor 3:8
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    8Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

  • John 6:63
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    63The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

    44For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

  • Heb 6:7-8
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    7For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

    8But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

  • Matt 7:17
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    17Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.

  • John 3:6
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    6That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

  • Ps 126:5
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    5Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • John 6:27
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    27Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

  • 1 Cor 15:50
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    50Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

  • Mark 4:28
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    28The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • Matt 12:33
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    33Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.