Galatians 6:8
For 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.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
7Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
9Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Cross References
Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Isaiah 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Matthew 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; 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 →