We Still Harvest What We Plant...(Pt 2)

Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 281 helpful votes

 

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 280 helpful votes

 

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 279 helpful votes

 

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.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 276 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

2 Corinthians 5:9-10 ESV / 275 helpful votes

 

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Galatians 6:9-10 ESV / 274 helpful votes

 

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 274 helpful votes

 

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 272 helpful votes

 

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Luke 19:20-21 ESV / 263 helpful votes

 

Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 261 helpful votes

 

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Matthew 13:24 ESV / 261 helpful votes

 

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Luke 6:37 ESV / 259 helpful votes

 

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 256 helpful votes

 

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 243 helpful votes

 

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

John 3:17 ESV / 227 helpful votes

 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 225 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 225 helpful votes

 

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Luke 8:5-8 ESV / 223 helpful votes

 

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Acts 20:35 ESV / 220 helpful votes

 

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 2:21 ESV / 219 helpful votes

 

You then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 217 helpful votes

 

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 216 helpful votes

 

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Revelation 2:4-5 ESV / 215 helpful votes

 

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Titus 2:11-14 ESV / 215 helpful votes

 

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Revelation 2:1-7 ESV / 213 helpful votes

 

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Colossians 3:1-5 ESV / 212 helpful votes

 

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:1-4 ESV / 211 helpful votes

 

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Matthew 10:32 ESV / 210 helpful votes

 

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 207 helpful votes

 

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

1 Corinthians 16:22 ESV / 207 helpful votes

 

If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 207 helpful votes

 

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 8:44 ESV / 207 helpful votes

 

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Mark 4:14-20 ESV / 206 helpful votes

 

The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ...

Matthew 7:16 ESV / 206 helpful votes

 

You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Leviticus 25:11 ESV / 205 helpful votes

 

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

Isaiah 37:30 ESV / 197 helpful votes

 

“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 194 helpful votes

 

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Luke 19:21 ESV / 193 helpful votes

 

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 187 helpful votes

 

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

John 13:34 ESV / 185 helpful votes

 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 185 helpful votes

 

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Psalm 126:1-6 ESV / 184 helpful votes

 

A Song of Ascents. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb! Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! ...

Matthew 13:24-30 ESV / 180 helpful votes

 

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ ...

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 172 helpful votes

 

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 168 helpful votes

 

He will render to each one according to his works:

Obadiah 1:15-16 ESV / 168 helpful votes

 

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.