Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived, God is not mocked.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
In Context
Cross References
Job 13:8Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 6:19A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
Jeremiah 37:9But if you should even beat al: the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with Are.
Hosea 8:7For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
Obadiah 1:3The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground ?
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 →