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 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Luke 6:38“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
• Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• 2 Cor 9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
• Gal 6:7–9Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
• Eccl 11:1Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• Ps 41:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Gal 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Luke 19:16–26The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
• Gal 3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
• 1 Cor 15:20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• 1 Cor 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
• Col 2:4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
• 1 Cor 1:12Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

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