Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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Study Note
The proverbial warning — 'do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap' — applies the universal agricultural law of seedtime and harvest to the moral-spiritual domain. The verb 'mocked' (mukterizetai — literally, to turn up the nose at) presents the attempt to sow to the flesh while expecting spiritual harvest as an act of contempt toward God's moral order. Paul deploys this principle in the context of financial support for teachers (verse 6) and the flesh/spirit contrast (verse 8), making it serve both practical community ethics and theological anthropology. The verse has functioned across traditions as the most economical biblical statement of moral consequentialism — not as strict tit-for-tat retribution but as the reliable working out of divinely ordered moral causation.
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Thus saith the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield …