2 Corinthians 9:6

Paul lays down a principle: sparing sowing yields a sparing harvest, and bountiful sowing a bountiful one. Generosity is repaid by God's corresponding blessing.

Cross-references · 19

• Prov 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
• Luke 6:38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
• Prov 22:9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
• Prov 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
• 2 Cor 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
• Gal 6:7–9Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• Prov 11:18The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.
• Eccl 11:1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
• Eccl 11:6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
• Ps 41:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
• Gal 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Luke 19:16–26The first servant came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’
• Gal 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• 1 Cor 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• 1 Cor 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
• Col 2:4I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
• 1 Cor 1:12What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

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