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

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The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(A)

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12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    break up your fallow ground,
for it is time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.(A)

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

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He will repay according to each one’s deeds:(A) to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.(B) There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek,(C) 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek.

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33 Do not be deceived:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.[a](A)

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  1. 5.6 Gk sons of disobedience

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

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31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
    and be sated with their own devices.(A)

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14 with perverted mind devising evil,
    continually sowing discord;(A)

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31 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,
    for emptiness will be their recompense.(A)

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Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A)

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  1. 6.9 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. 6.9 Meaning of Gk uncertain

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.(A)

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25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.(A)

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Little children,[a] let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

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  1. 3.7 Other ancient authorities read Children

22 But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.(A)

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Your proud heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
    whose dwelling is in the heights.
You say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”(A)

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  1. 3 Or clefts of Sela

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.(A)

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Will you show partiality toward him;
    will you plead the case for God?
Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
    Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?(A)

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And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’[a] and, ‘The time is near!’[b] Do not go after them.(A)

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  1. 21.8 Gk I am
  2. 21.8 Or at hand

18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.(A)

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18 for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”(A)

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26 If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.(A)

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19 a lying witness who testifies falsely,
    and one who sows discord in a family.(A)

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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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