Galatians 6:8
Good News Translation
If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

New Revised Standard Version
If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Contemporary English Version
If you follow your selfish desires, you will harvest destruction, but if you follow the Spirit, you will harvest eternal life.

New American Bible
because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

soweth to his.

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

reap.

Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Hosea 10:13 You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

2 Peter 2:12,19 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption: . . .

Revelation 22:11 He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still.

soweth to the.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. . . .

Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better.

Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

of the Spirit.

Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

Luke 18:30 Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

John 4:14,36 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting. . . .

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

Titus 3:7 That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to hope of life everlasting.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.

Context
Carry One Another's Burdens
7Be not deceived: God is not mocked. 8For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. 9And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.…
Cross References
Job 4:8
On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Proverbs 11:18
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Hosea 8:7
For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Hosea 10:13
You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Matthew 25:46
And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

Romans 6:21
What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:6
For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 15:42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

James 3:18
And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

Galatians 6:7
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