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Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Context

6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

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Cross References

Job 13:8Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?

Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

Jeremiah 37:9This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!

Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can 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 →

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