Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
  • Rom 6:21-22 : 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
  • Job 4:8 : 8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
  • 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.
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest. 6 The 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.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
  • Hos 10:13 : 13 But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
  • Luke 18:30 : 30 who will not receive many times more in this age– and in the age to come, eternal life.”
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 4:36 : 36 The 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.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
  • Jude 1:21 : 21 maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 The evildoer must continue to do evil, and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy. The one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Titus 3:7 : 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the LORD will take them away in his fierce anger.