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As you sow, so shall you reap.

自食其果。

種瓜得瓜 ,

種豆得豆

若你過的是不道德的甚至是罪惡的生活,得到的回報無疑是懲罰而不是獎賞. 

源出《新約全書》

(the New Testament)

《加拉太書》

(Galatians) 的第六章第七、八節

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原句為

:Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you

reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap

corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap

eternal life from the Spirit.

(不要自欺,上帝是輕慢不得的.人種的是什麼,收的也是什麼.

順著情欲撒種的,必從情欲收敗壞;順著聖靈撒種的,必從聖靈收永生.)

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2. The leopard cannot change his spots.

江山易改,本性難移。豹子生而有斑紋,豈能後天改變得了?同樣,如果一個人天性惡劣,那麼他將很難變好. 

語出《舊約全書》

(the Old Testament)

《耶利米書》

(Jeremiah) 中的第十三章第二十三節

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原句為

: Can Ethiopian change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

(衣索比亞人能改變其膚色嗎?或者豹子能改變其豹斑嗎?若能,你們這些慣行

惡的便可行善了.)

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