Galatians 6:9
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
WEB
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
KJV
What Galatians 6:9 means
Near the close of a heated letter, Paul urges believers not to give up on doing good, promising that the harvest comes in due season for those who don't quit, even when the results are nowhere in sight.
Galatians 6:9 comes at the end of a passionate letter Paul wrote to churches he feared were losing their way. In the final chapter he turns practical, using a farming image everyone understood: you reap what you sow. Then he adds the encouragement, that we should not grow weary in doing good, because the harvest will come in its time if we do not give up.
Paul is writing to people who were tired, discouraged, and tempted to quit, and the farming metaphor carries a hard truth they knew in their bones. A farmer plants and then waits through a long stretch where nothing visible happens, trusting a harvest he cannot yet see. The "due season" is not on the sower's schedule; it belongs to the crop and the soil. The promise is real, but it asks for endurance through the empty-looking middle.
The phrase the translation renders "in due season" is, in Greek, kairo idio, "in its own proper time," a time that is fixed but not ours to rush. And "lose heart" or "give up" (ekkakeo) carries the sense of going slack from exhaustion, the way anyone does when effort drags on with no reward in view. The verse names that exact fatigue and answers it: the season is coming; do not quit before it arrives.