Sowing and Reaping [Annotated, Updated]: Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. – Galatians 6:7

by Dwight L. Moody

moral and spiritual disaster usually overtakes people when they are not guarding their hearts and when they are careless against temptation.

Sins, like serpents, breed quickly and need to be constantly watched.

(Psalm 121:4),

(Matthew 26:41).

It is impossible for the deception to last forever.

(James 5:7)

A person expects to reap when he sows. He expects to reap the same kind of seed that he sows. He expects to reap more than he sows. Ignorance of the kind of seed makes no difference.

(Galatians 6:7).

(Romans 2:5-8)

How careful we should be of our actions in all departments of our being – physical, moral, and intellectual! The deeds we do, the words we speak, and the thoughts we harbor are all recorded and will meet their just reward, for God is no respecter of persons.

He does not sit on a throne attaching penalties to particular actions as they come up for judgment.

punishment is the natural outcome of sin. There is no escape.

Though others may have to reap with you, no one c...

(Romans 7:5).

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like

(Galatians 5:...

(Hosea 8:7).

Every desire and every action that does not have God as its end and object is seed sown to the flesh.

(1 John 2:17),

(1 Peter 1:24).

It is either flesh and corruption or Spirit and everlasting life. There is no bridge from one to the other.

(Matthew 5:4-8)

Everything reaps its own harvest; every act has its own reward.

We sow to the Spirit when we use our abilities and means to advance spiritual things.

(Galatians 5:22-24).

In this world, the harvest is growth of character, deeper respect, and increasing usefulness to others; in the next world, the harvest is acceptance by God and everlasting life.

(James 5:7).

Too often one generation sows and another has to reap.

God is a jealous God,...

(Deuteronomy 5:9).

(Exodus 23:10-11)

(Galatians 6:9).

(Ecclesiastes 8:11-13)

The idea that something will never be brought to light because it is done in the dark is fatal.

(Genesis 42:21).

It is sin that drives people crazy. It is the lack of Christ that sinks people into despair.

(Genesis 1:12)

(Matthew 7:16)

(Romans 8:13)

(Genesis 4:9).

(Hosea 12:2).

(Genesis 27:22).

(Genesis 28:13-15)

(Genesis 29:26).

(Genesis 37:20).

(Genesis 37:32).

(Genesis 37:33).

Every lie is bound to come back to you.

(Numbers 32:23).

no sin will be covered; God will uncover it.