2 Corinthians 9:6

τοῦτο δὲ, ὁ σπείρων κ. τ. λ.: but (sc., although I am not pressing you to give, cf. 2 Corinthians 9:1) this I say (understanding φημι; cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29; 1 Corinthians 15:50), He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he that soweth bountifully (lit., “on the principle of bounties”; cf. 1 Corinthians 9:10, ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι, for a similar dative of condition) shall also reap bountifully. A similar principle of spiritual husbandry is laid down in Proverbs 11:24-25, where its application is plainly to the temporal prosperity of the “liberal soul”; cf. also Luke 6:38. Here, too, this is, no doubt, the main thought (cf. 2 Corinthians 8:14); but St. Paul elsewhere extends the principle to the future harvest which each soul shall reap according to its sowing (Galatians 6:7; cf. chap. 2 Corinthians 5:10).