2 Corinthians 9:6
Greek Text— 2 Corinthians 9:6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Therefore, 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.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
For 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.
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
“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.”
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.
Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
You 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.
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.
He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
For 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.
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
In 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.
Now 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,
Now 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.
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
This 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,
Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;