Galatians 6:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

Common English Bible

⁸ Those who plant only for their own benefit will harvest devastation from their selfishness, but those who plant for the benefit of the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For whatever a man will have sown, that also shall he reap. For whoever sows in his flesh, from the flesh he shall also reap corruption. But whoever sows in the Spirit, from the Spirit he shall reap eternal life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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.

Galatians 6:8 Cross References

Job 4:8

As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots, in the multitude of your warriors,

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Matthew 19:29

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

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

Luke 18:30

who will not get back very much more in this age and in the age to come eternal life.”

John 4:14

but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

John 4:36

The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 6:13

No longer present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 8:6

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Jude 1:21

keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Revelation 22:11

Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”