John 4:37

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For in this the saying is true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'

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  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
  • Job 31:8 : 8 then may I sow, but another eat, and may my offspring be uprooted.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up and attack them.
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 'For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 4:35-36
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    35 Do you not say, 'There are still four months until harvest'? Look, I tell you: Lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest already.

    36 The one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

  • John 4:38
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    38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

  • 1 Cor 3:7-8
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    7 So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

    8 The one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive their reward according to their own labor.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6 Remember this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

    8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

    9 Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36 Foolish one, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

    37 And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14 The sower sows the word.

  • Job 4:8
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    8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

    6 The one who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will surely return with joyful shouting, carrying their sheaves.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

  • Mark 4:3-4
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    3 Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4 As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10 Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.

    11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28 The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

    29 As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle because the harvest has come.

  • Matt 9:37-38
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    37 Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.'

    38 Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • Matt 13:29-30
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    29 ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling up the weeds, you might uproot the wheat with them.

    30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.”’

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10 Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Mark 4:8
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    8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It grew, producing fruit that increased and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
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    18 For the Scripture says, 'You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing,' and, 'The worker is worthy of his wages.'

  • Prov 11:18
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    18 The wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness receives a sure reward.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37 They sowed fields and planted vineyards, which yielded a fruitful harvest.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8 Still other seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.

  • Matt 13:37
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    37 He replied, 'The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.'

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6 Sow your seed in the morning and do not withhold your hand in the evening, for you do not know which will prosper—whether this or that, or if both will equally thrive.

  • Mark 4:25-26
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    25 For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

    26 He also said, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man scatters seed on the ground.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20 But those sown on good ground are the ones who hear the word, welcome it, and produce fruit—some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was sown.

  • Matt 20:7
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    7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'

  • Hos 8:7
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    7 For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it will yield no flour. Even if it does produce, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Matt 13:27
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    27 The servants of the landowner came to him and said, 'Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?'

  • Eccl 4:9
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    9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4 Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

  • Matt 20:4
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    4 He told them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

  • Jas 5:4
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    4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

  • Luke 10:2
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    2 He said to them, 'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.'

  • Matt 13:24
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    24 Jesus presented another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

  • John 12:24
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    24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5 A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was stepped on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.