2 Corinthians 9:6

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My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

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  • Prov 22:9 : 9 A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.
  • Prov 11:24-25 : 24 One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty. 25 A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.
  • Luke 6:38 : 38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.
  • Gal 6:7-9 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person 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. 9 So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.
  • Heb 6:10 : 10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.
  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.
  • Ps 41:1-3 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, may the LORD deliver him. 2 May the LORD protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies! 3 The LORD supports him on his sickbed; you have healed him from his illness.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.
  • Luke 19:16-26 : 16 So the first one came before him and said,‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’ 17 And the king said to him,‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’ 18 Then the second one came and said,‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 So the king said to him,‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another slave came and said,‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth. 21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow? 23 Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to his attendants,‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’ 25 But they said to him,‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’ 26 ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
  • 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
  • Col 2:4 : 4 I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I mean this, that each of you is saying,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” or“I am with Cephas,” or“I am with Christ.”
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

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  • 2 Cor 9:7-11
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    7Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

    8And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

    9Just as it is written,“He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.”

    10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

    11You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

  • Gal 6:6-10
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    6Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person 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.

    9So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

    10So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

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    5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

  • Prov 22:8-9
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    8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

    9A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.

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    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

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    10Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

    11If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

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    38Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”

  • Prov 11:24-26
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    24One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

    25A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.

    26People will curse the one who withholds grain, but they will praise the one who sells it.

  • 2 Cor 8:12-15
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    12For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

    14At the present time, your abundance will meet their need, so that one day their abundance may also meet your need, and thus there may be equality,

    15as it is written:“The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

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    6He will reward each one according to his works:

  • Luke 12:16
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    16He then told them a parable:“The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

  • Deut 16:17
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    17Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

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    10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

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    8The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

    6The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

  • Lev 19:9
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    9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

  • 1 Tim 6:18
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    18Tell them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Mark 4:25
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    25For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • Job 4:8
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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  • Matt 13:12
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    12For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

  • Matt 25:29
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    29For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • Eph 6:8
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    8because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

  • Prov 28:27
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    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

  • Luke 12:18
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    18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.