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

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18 A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
    but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.(A)

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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.(A) So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.(B)

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Whoever sows to please their flesh,(A) from the flesh will reap destruction;(B) whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.(C) Let us not become weary in doing good,(D) for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.(E)

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18 And the fruit of righteousness[a] is sown in peace by those who make peace.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.18 Or justice

18 Peacemakers(A) who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.(B)

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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)

13 You have plowed wickedness;
    you have reaped injustice;
    you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your chariots,[a]
    in the multitude of your warriors,(B)

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  1. 10.13 Gk: Heb your way

12 Sow(A) righteousness(B) for yourselves,
    reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;(C)
    for it is time to seek(D) the Lord,
until he comes
    and showers his righteousness(E) on you.
13 But you have planted wickedness,
    you have reaped evil,(F)
    you have eaten the fruit of deception.(G)
Because you have depended on your own strength
    and on your many warriors,(H)

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May those who sow in tears
    reap with shouts of joy.(A)
Those who go out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    carrying their sheaves.

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Those who sow with tears(A)
    will reap(B) with songs of joy.(C)
Those who go out weeping,(D)
    carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
    carrying sheaves with them.

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Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
    and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.(A)

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Whoever digs a pit may fall into it;(A)
    whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.(B)

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They hatch adders’ eggs
    and weave the spider’s web;
whoever eats their eggs dies,
    and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.(A)
Their webs cannot serve as clothing;
    they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.(B)
Their feet run to evil,
    and they rush to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.(C)
The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their ways.
Their roads they have made crooked;
    no one who walks in them knows peace.(D)

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They hatch the eggs of vipers(A)
    and spin a spider’s web.(B)
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
    they cannot cover themselves with what they make.(C)
Their deeds are evil deeds,
    and acts of violence(D) are in their hands.
Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(E)
They pursue evil schemes;(F)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(G)
The way of peace they do not know;(H)
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;(I)
    no one who walks along them will know peace.(J)

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

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Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,(A)
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.(B)

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22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
    and they are caught in the coils of their sin.(A)

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22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;(A)
    the cords of their sins hold them fast.(B)

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18 yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
    and set an ambush—for their own lives!

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18 These men lie in wait(A) for their own blood;
    they ambush only themselves!(B)

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13 “This is the portion of the wicked with God
    and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:[a](A)
14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
    and their offspring have not enough to eat.(B)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
    and their widows make no lamentation.(C)
16 Though they heap up silver like dust
    and pile up clothing like clay,(D)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
    and the innocent will divide the silver.(E)
18 They build their houses like nests,
    like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
    they open their eyes, and it is gone.(F)
20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(G)
21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
    it sweeps them out of their place.(H)
22 It[b] hurls at them without pity;
    they flee from its[c] power in headlong flight.(I)
23 It[d] claps its[e] hands at them
    and hisses at them from its[f] place.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. 27.22 Or He (that is, God)
  3. 27.22 Or his
  4. 27.23 Or He (that is, God)
  5. 27.23 Or his
  6. 27.23 Or his

13 “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,
    the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:(A)
14 However many his children,(B) their fate is the sword;(C)
    his offspring will never have enough to eat.(D)
15 The plague will bury those who survive him,
    and their widows will not weep for them.(E)
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust(F)
    and clothes like piles of clay,(G)
17 what he lays up(H) the righteous will wear,(I)
    and the innocent will divide his silver.(J)
18 The house(K) he builds is like a moth’s cocoon,(L)
    like a hut(M) made by a watchman.
19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;(N)
    when he opens his eyes, all is gone.(O)
20 Terrors(P) overtake him like a flood;(Q)
    a tempest snatches him away in the night.(R)
21 The east wind(S) carries him off, and he is gone;(T)
    it sweeps him out of his place.(U)
22 It hurls itself against him without mercy(V)
    as he flees headlong(W) from its power.(X)
23 It claps its hands(Y) in derision
    and hisses him out of his place.”(Z)

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22 to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,(A)

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22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off(A) your old self,(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;(C)

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