Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Ver. 7. Be not deceived] Think not all well saved that is withheld from the minister. It is a saying in the civil law, Clericis Laici sunt oppido infensi; many think it neither sin nor pity to beguile the preacher. But God is not mocked, neither will he be robbed by any, but they shall hear, Ye are cursed with a curse, Malachi 3:8,9, even with Shallum's curse,Jeremiah 22:11,13, that used his neighbour's service without wages, and would sacrilegiously take in a piece of God's windows into his wide house, Galatians 6:14 .
God is not mocked] They that would mock God, imposturam faciunt, et patientur (as the emperor said of him that sold glass for pearls), they mock themselves much more.