Galatians 6:8

Easy To Read Version

If a person plants (lives) to satisfy his sinful self, then his sinful self will bring him eternal death. But if a person plants to please the Spirit, {\cf2\super [76]} he will get eternal life from the Spirit.

Cross References

Job 4:8

I have seen some troublemakers\par and people who make life hard.\par But they are always punished!\par

Proverbs 11:18

An evil man cheats people and takes their money. But a person that is fair and does right will get the real reward.

Proverbs 22:8

A person who spreads trouble will harvest trouble. And in the end, that person will be destroyed because of the trouble he gave other people.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

So begin planting early in the morning, and don’t stop working until evening. Why? Because you don’t know which things will make you rich. Maybe everything you do will be successful.

Isaiah 32:20

Some of you people plant seeds near every stream of water. You let your cattle and donkeys walk around and eat freely. You people will be very happy.

Jeremiah 12:13

The people will plant wheat,\par but they will harvest only thorns.\par They will work hard until they are very tired,\par but they will get nothing for all their work.\par They will be ashamed of their crop.\par The Lord’s anger caused those things.”\par

Hosea 10:13

But you planted evil, and you harvested trouble. You ate the fruit of your lies. Why? Because you have trusted in your power and your soldiers.

Hosea 8:7

The Israelites \{did a foolish thing\}—it was like trying to plant the wind. But \{they will get only troubles\}—they will harvest a whirlwind. The grain in the fields will grow. It will give no food. Even if it grew something, strangers would eat it.

Matthew 19:29

And every person that has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than he left. And that person will have life forever.

Matthew 25:46

“Then those bad people will go away. They will have punishment forever. But the good people will go and have life forever.”

Luke 18:30

will get much more than he left. That person will get many times more in this life. And after that person dies, he will live with God forever.”

John 4:14

But the person that drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. That water I give will become like a spring of water flowing inside that person. That water will bring that person life forever.”

John 4:36

Even now, the person that harvests the crop is being paid. He is gathering crops for eternal life. So now the person that plants can be happy together with the person that harvests.

John 6:27

Earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good always and gives you life forever. The Son of Man {\cf2\super [87]} will give you that food. God the Father showed that he is with the Son of Man.”

Romans 13:14

But become like the Lord Jesus Christ, so when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don’t think about how to satisfy your sinful self and the bad things you want to do.

Romans 6:13

Don’t offer the parts of your body to serve sin. Don’t use your bodies as things to do evil with. But you should offer yourselves to God. Be like people that have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used for doing good.

Romans 6:23

When people sin, they earn what sin pays—death. But God gives his people a free gift—life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:11

God raised Jesus from death. And if God’s Spirit is living in you, then he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from death. And he will give life to your bodies through his Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.

Romans 8:6

If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is spiritual death. But if a person’s thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace.

1 Corinthians 15:42

It is the same with the dead people who are raised to life. The body that is “planted” will ruin and decay. But that body is raised to a life that cannot be destroyed.

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be fooled: You cannot cheat God. A person harvests only the things he plants. {\cf2\super [75]}

1 Timothy 1:16

But I was given mercy. I was given mercy so that in me Christ Jesus could show that he has patience without limit. Christ showed his patience with me, the worst of all sinners. Christ wanted me to be an example for those people who would believe in him and have life forever.

Titus 3:7

We were made right with God by his grace (kindness). God saved us so that we could be his children and look forward to receiving life that never ends.

James 3:18

People who work for peace in a peaceful way get the good things that come from right living.

2 Peter 2:12

But these false teachers speak evil against things they don’t understand. These false teachers are like animals that do things without really thinking—like wild animals that are born to be caught and killed. And, like wild animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.

2 Peter 2:19

These false teachers promise that those people will have freedom. But the false teachers themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. A person is a slave to the thing that controls him.

Revelation 22:11

Let the person that is doing wrong continue to do wrong. Let the person that is unclean continue to be unclean. Let the person that is doing right continue to do right. Let the person that is holy continue to be holy {\cf2\super [172]} .”