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Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.
Galatians 6:9 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
  • KJV And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 33

  • 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Th 3:13But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
  • Isa 40:30–31Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
  • Heb 10:35–39Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
  • Heb 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  • 1 Pet 2:15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
  • Jas 5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
  • 1 Pet 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
  • 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
  • Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
  • 1 Pet 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
  • Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
  • Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
  • 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
  • Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Lev 26:4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
  • Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
  • Rev 2:26–29He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
  • Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • Ps 145:15The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
  • Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
  • Deut 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
  • Rev 3:5–6He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
  • Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • Zeph 3:16In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
  • Rev 3:12–13He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • Rev 3:21–22He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
  • Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
  • Rev 2:10–11Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  • Ps 104:27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.
  • Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
  • Mal 1:13You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

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