What Does You Reap What You Sow Mean

So what does the phrase you reap what you sow mean.

In this use it s similar to i told you so. You reap what you sow has also been used to describe the hindu and buddhist concept of karma to westerners. If someone reaps what they sow they suffer or benefit as a result of their own actions. To reap is to gather a crop and to sow to plant seeds throughout scripture sowing is used as a metaphor for one s actions and reaping for the results of such actions.

Don t be misled you cannot mock the justice of god. You reap what you sow means that there is an effect for everything people do or say and that the effort a person puts into something will be rewarded appropriately in this life or the next. To reap a crop such as corn means to cut and gather it. It seems to me that if we neglect these people in our society we should expect to reap what we sow.

The biblical meaning of this phrase comes from a passage in galatians.