Reaping What You Sow

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

As I have seen--ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness--a true reward.

For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none--a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield--strangers do swallow it up.

Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you. — read the full passage →

And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick--they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

Thou--thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou--thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine--and thou drinkest not wine.

If we to you the spiritual things did sow--great <FI>is it<Fi> if we your fleshly things do reap?

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man--from his fruits.

And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; — read the full passage →

`And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not. — read the full passage →

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

for if any one doth think <FI>himself<Fi> to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not.

Whoso is earnestly seeking good Seeketh a pleasing thing, And whoso is seeking evil--it meeteth him.

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

and as many as by this rule do walk--peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding; — read the full passage →

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, — read the full passage →

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

`And another came, saying, Sir, lo, thy pound, that I had lying away in a napkin; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah <FI> am<Fi> your God.'

`When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

`The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it. — read the full passage →

for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

He who is sowing doth sow the word; — read the full passage →

Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave! — read the full passage →

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

`A jubilee it <FI>is<Fi> , the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ--let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

--And this to thee <FI>is<Fi> the sign, Food of the year <FI>is<Fi> self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field, — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back <FI>to<Fi> the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers. — read the full passage →

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. — read the full passage →

who shall render to each according to his works;

then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

For near <FI>is<Fi> the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head. — read the full passage →

That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →