He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.
Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The clause 'God loves a cheerful giver' has no Hebrew counterpart but matches the Septuagintal plus to Proverbs 22:8b, 'God blesses a cheerful man and a giver,' nearly word for word in vocabulary (hilaron, didonta/doten). The verbal volume is high enough that most commentators treat this as Paul's source rather than free composition. The shift from 'blesses' to 'loves' is the only material variation.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity" supplies the sapiential form of the maxim Paul cites in v.7. Volume is moderate and the proverb belongs to the same cluster as Job 4:8; coherence is high though no single source is quoted verbatim.
Medium confidence