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Galatians 6:8

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

In Context

7Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

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Cross References

Job 4:8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Proverbs 22:8By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Isaiah 32:20Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

Hosea 8:7For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Matthew 19:29And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

John 4:14But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of 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 →

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