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As I see it, those who plow mischief
    and sow trouble will reap them.

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Those who sow iniquity reap calamity,(A)
    and the rod used in anger will fail.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Agricultural metaphors express the failure of malicious actions. In the first line, bad actions are seeds yielding trouble. In the second line, “the rod” is a flail used to beat grains as in Is 28:27.

Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(A)

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Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows, 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.(A)

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