2 Corinthians 9:6

World English Bible (2000)

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
  • Prov 11:24-25 : 24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
  • Luke 6:38 : 38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Gal 6:7-9 : 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
  • Heb 6:10 : 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
  • Ps 41:1-3 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. 2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. 3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
  • Luke 19:16-26 : 16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.' 17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.' 18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.' 19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.' 20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, 21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.' 22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow. 23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?' 24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.' 25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' 26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  • 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
  • Col 2:4 : 4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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    8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

    9As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."

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    6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

    7Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

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    10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

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    24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

    25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

    14but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

    15As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

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    16He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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    6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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    8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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    37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

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    25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

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    37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

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

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    12For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

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    29For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.

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    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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    8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

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    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

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    27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

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    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

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    18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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    18He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.