18 A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
But one who (A)sows righteousness gets a true reward.

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17 And the (A)work of righteousness will be peace,
And the service of righteousness, (B)quietness and [a]confidence forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:17 Or security

12 (A)Sow for yourselves, with a view to righteousness;
Harvest in accordance with [a]kindness.
(B)Break up your uncultivated ground,
For it is time to (C)seek the Lord
Until He (D)comes and (E)rains righteousness on you.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:12 Or loyalty

12 Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one [a]plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned (A)justice into poison,
And the fruit of righteousness into [b]wormwood,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Another reading is plow the sea with oxen
  2. Amos 6:12 I.e., bitterness

(A)For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap (B)destruction from the flesh, but (C)the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

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11 having been filled with the (A)fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

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