Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
KJV
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
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Commentary
The wicked worketh a deceitful work,.... Such a wicked man as before described; that neither enjoys the good things of life he has, nor suffers others to enjoy them; and all to accumulate riches, which are deceitful and perishing; and who abstains from meats, which God has created for use, under a pretence of religion, and so deceives his own soul; and indeed every sin which a wicked man commits is a deceitful work; it promises him that pleasure, or profit, or liberty, which it does not give him, and in the issue is the ruin of him; and so all false doctrines, propagated by deceitful workers, are deceitful works, by which they deceive the simple, and at last themselves; they "obtain a deceitful reward of their work", as Gussetius (w) renders it;
but to him that soweth righteousness; does acts of beneficence and liberality; see
Co2 9:9
; and all other good works, or works of righteousness,
shall be a sure reward; according to what a man sows, and the manner in which he sows, so shall he reap,
Co2 9:6
; or, "a reward of truth"; instead of being given up to believe a lie, he shall receive the love of the truth, and abide in it, which will bring him to eternal glory and happiness; he being chosen to it through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,
Th2 2:10
; and, instead of a deceitful reward, shall have a true, real, solid, and substantial one.
(w) Ebr. Comment. p. 692.
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