Sowing and reaping is one of the simplest, yet most ignored concepts of life. Anything we put our time, energy, money, or focus on is an act of sowing. Reaping is the results or consequences of what we’ve sown. The Bible gives very clear teaching on this reality that can influence our eternal rewards.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. | Genesis 14:18-20
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. | Psalm 24:1
And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. | Nehemiah 10:38
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. | Proverbs 28:20
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. | Malachi 3:10
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. | Luke 11:42
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. | Ecclesiastes 11:1
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. | Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. | Galatians 6:7
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. | 2 Corinthians 9:7
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. | John 3:16
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. | Ecclesiastes 3:1
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. | 2 Corinthians 8:12
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you. | Luke 6:38
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanks giving to God. | 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. | Romans 12:1
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. | 1 Corinthians 13:3
Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? | Romans 11:35
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. | Galatians 6:6
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. | Romans 13:7
Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. | Malachi 4:4
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you. | Genesis 28:20-22
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. | Psalm 126:5-6
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. | Colossians 3:23-24
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. | Proverbs 22:8
It’s not a matter if you think you are sowing or not. Step out of the deception and recognize that your life is one big field waiting for the right seeds to be planted. It’s best to take out a little time to do an inventory of your life. You can start with a small seed of determination to make a change and one day reap a huge dividend of eternal reward from God.