And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
- BSB Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- NKJV And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
- NASB Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.
- NLT So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
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Quick answer
Believers should not grow weary in doing good, for in due time they will reap a harvest if they do not give up. Perseverance in good works will be rewarded by God.
Overview
Paul encourages steadfastness in the often-tiring work of doing good. The promised harvest comes 'in due season,' at God's appointed time, so believers must keep on without losing heart. This verse offers hope and motivation, assuring weary saints that Spirit-empowered faithfulness is never in vain because God Himself guarantees the harvest.
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Cross-references · 33
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- 2 Th 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
- Isa 40:30–31Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Heb 10:35–39Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
- Heb 12:3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
- 1 Pet 2:15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
- Jas 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
- 1 Pet 3:17For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
- 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- Rev 2:3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
- 1 Pet 4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
- Luke 18:1And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
- Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
- 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
- Lev 26:4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Rev 2:7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
- Rev 2:26–29And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
- Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- Ps 145:15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- Rev 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Deut 11:14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
- Rev 3:5–6He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Eph 3:13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
- Zeph 3:16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
- Rev 3:12–13Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
- Rev 3:21–22To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
- Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
- Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- Rev 2:10–11Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
- Ps 104:27These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
- Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
- Mal 1:13Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
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