Galatians 6:8

Sowing to the flesh reaps corruption, but sowing to the Spirit reaps eternal life. The direction of our lives, whether toward the flesh or the Spirit, leads to opposite ends.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Jas 3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• Hos 10:13You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
• Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
• Rom 6:21–22What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• Gal 6:7Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Prov 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
• John 4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• Rev 22:11He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Jer 12:13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• 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.
• Matt 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.
• Hos 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.
• 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.”
• Luke 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
• Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• 1 Tim 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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