what goes around comes around
What does the Bible say about what goes around comes around? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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11Woe to the impious man immersed in evil! For retribution will be given to him from his own hands.
7Do not choose to wander astray. God is not to be ridiculed.
27Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.
12Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
19Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”
8Whoever sows iniquity will reap evils, and by the rod of his own wrath he will be consumed.
6it circles through the south, and arcs toward the north. The spirit continues on, illuminating everything in its circuit, and turning again in its cycle. 7All rivers enter into the sea, and the sea does not overflow. To the place from which the rivers go out, they return, so that they may flow again.
25For whoever causes injury shall be repaid for what he has wrongfully done. And there no favoritism with God.
7For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.
3For the things that you have spoken in darkness will be declared in the light. And what you have said in the ear in bedrooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
1“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also.