# reap what one sows

Pronunciation: US say "reep waht wun SOHZ" /ˌɹip wɑt wʌn ˈsoʊz/; UK/AUS say "reep wot wun SOHZ" /ˌɹiːp(h)wɒt wʌn ˈsəʊz/

## Idiom

1. To receive a return or reward that matches one's own efforts or intentions, good or bad, in short, to get the justice one deserves.
   - Simple: To get the good or bad results you deserve because of what you did or meant to do.
   - _Companies that treat their workers badly will reap what they sow when their best people walk out the door._
   - _After twenty years of patient, unglamorous research, the lab reaped what it had sown when its vaccine passed every trial._

## Origin

The phrase comes from Galatians 6:7 in the King James Version of the Bible: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/reap-what-one-sows (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).