Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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