Proverbs 22:8
8. (Compare Pr 11:18; Ps 109:16-20; Ga 6:7, 8).
the rod . . . fail—His power to do evil will be destroyed.Galatians 6:7
7. God is not mocked—The Greek verb is, literally, to sneer with the nostrils drawn up in contempt. God does not suffer Himself to be imposed on by empty words: He will judge according to works, which are seeds sown for eternity of either joy or woe. Excuses for illiberality in God's cause (Ga 6:6) seem valid before men, but are not so before God (Ps 50:21).
soweth—especially of his resources (2Co 9:6). that—Greek, "this"; this and nothing else. reap—at the harvest, the end of the world (Mt 13:39).
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