Galatians 6:8
Because 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.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.
9And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.
Cross References
Job 4:8According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Isaiah 32:20Blessed are ye who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.
Matthew 19:29And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 6:2-11
Tenderness in Reproving; Self-Examination; Spiritual Mindedness and Beneficence. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in… Read the whole commentary →