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So, I'm sitting at home surfing and my friend calls up and says she has a "Bible question." I ask her what it is, and it's something I can't answer. Maybe someone here will know.
Is the phrase "What goes around comes around" from the Bible? I don't think it is, and I searched Biblegateway and came up with nothing...but I could be mistaken. Any help?
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Proverbs talks about reaping what you sow. I think thats what she means.
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"What goes around comes around" is a common cliche replacing "You reap what you sow," in essense, but is not found in the Bible in that specific form.
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Or maybe she was slightly confused, and she was referring to Ecclesiastes. And listening too much to "Turn, Turn, Turn"...
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Proverbs 22:8 says "Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity," which seems to indicate that people who are unjust receive calamity as the fruit of their labors. I think that's the only thing that approaches "you reap what you sow" in the Bible. Notice, however, that the common cliche is much more general than what Proverbs says.
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thanks everyone!
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I hate to disagree with Aaron, but
Galations 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
However, when most people talk about what goes around, comes around, they are talking about some sort of karma or something.
One thing to consider as well is that what a man sows, he will indeed reap, but mabe not in this lifetime. (See Psalm 73)
On earth it may be that time and chance take a toll.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. 12For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
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I agree with everyone who is saying that it is not in that form in the Bible, but that there is another form of it, reaping what is sown.
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No.
Now, "Don't want to think about it, don't want to talk about it, I'm just so sick about it, can't believe it's ending this way; just so confused about it, feeling the blues about it, I just can't do without you, tell me is this fair?" may be a different story.
I'm pretty sure that "You're spending nights alone, and he never comes home, and every time you call, all you get's a busy tone" isn't in the Bible, though.
I should probably be more serious in this forum, considering my brother is a moderator and all.
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I believe the term "what goes around comes around" comes from an idea of karma... which is believed by Hindus.
"Karma translates literally as action, work or deed and is often described as the 'moral law of cause and effect'." site
So, yeah... that's just a complicated way of saying "what goes around comes around."