Galatians 6:7
Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow — that also he shall reap,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
In Context
6And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing — in all good things.
Cross References
Job 13:8His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Proverbs 1:31And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
Proverbs 6:19A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
Jeremiah 37:9'Thus said Jehovah: Lift not up your souls saying, The Chaldeans surely go from off us, for they do not go;
Hosea 8:7For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none — a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield — strangers do swallow it up.
Obadiah 1:3The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down [to] earth?')
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 →