As you sow, so shall you reap.

As you sow, so shall you reap.
As you sow, so shall you reap. & As a man sows, so shall he reap.
Prov. Things will happen to you good or bad, according to how you behave. (Biblical.) •

You should stop being so cruel to other people. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Fred built an immense fortune by swindling others, but lost it all when someone swindled him. As a man sows, so shall he reap.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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