Galatians 6:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Jas 3:18 : 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.
  • Rom 6:21-22 : 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
  • Job 4:8 : 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.
  • 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.
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. 6 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, Will assuredly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
  • Hos 10:13 : 13 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, For you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • Luke 18:30 : 30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
  • John 4:14 : 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
  • John 4:36 : 36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • Jude 1:21 : 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still."
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Titus 3:7 : 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
  • John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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  • Gal 6:6-7
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    6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

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

  • 9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

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

  • John 4:36-37
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    36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

    37 For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

  • Rom 8:9-13
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    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

    10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

    12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

    13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • Rom 8:5-6
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    5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

  • 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

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    36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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

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

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

  • 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

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

  • 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

  • 7 For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

  • 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • 16 The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

  • 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

    44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  • Heb 6:7-8
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    7 For 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;

    8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

  • 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

  • 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 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;

  • 5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

  • 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

  • 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

  • 50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

  • 5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

  • 28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • 33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

  • 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.

  • 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

  • 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

  • 4 He who observes the wind won't sow; And he who regards the clouds won't reap.

  • 18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

  • 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.