Galatians 6:8
because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow — that also he shall reap,
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Proverbs 22:8Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
Isaiah 32:20Happy [are] ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!
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.
Matthew 19:29and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;
John 4:14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst — to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
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 →