Galatians 6:9 (KJV)

What does this mean?

Paul urges us not to grow weary in doing good, because at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. The harvest has a season — it does not come on our schedule. The warning is against the quiet tiredness that makes good people stop doing good.

What does this teach us?

Doing good doesn't always produce immediate results, and the absence of results is not proof that the good was wasted. Keep acting with kindness, honesty, and faithfulness even when nobody notices. The promise is not that every good deed is instantly rewarded, but that the harvest comes in due season to those who keep going.

How can we apply this?

Keep doing the right thing in the place where no one sees it — the kind word, the honest choice, the faithful habit. When you feel like giving up, remember that harvests have seasons and this is not the season yet. Encourage someone else who is weary in doing good today.

Related KJV passages

• “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

  1 Corinthians 15:58

• “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”

  2 Thessalonians 3:13

• “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”

  Psalm 126:5