John 4:36

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

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  • Rom 1:13 : 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you(and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 3:5-9 : 5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow. 7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work. 9 We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law. 21 To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law. 22 To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some. 23 I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world 16 by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith! 8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.
  • Dan 12:3 : 3 But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 4:37-38
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    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

    38I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

  • John 4:35
    82%

    35Don’t you say,‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

  • Gal 6:6-9
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    6Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

    9So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

    6The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

  • Matt 13:29-30
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    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

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

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

    29And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

  • 1 Cor 3:8
    77%

    8The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
    76%

    6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

    11If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

  • Job 24:6
    75%

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Job 4:8
    74%

    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  • Jas 5:4
    74%

    4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Mark 4:14
    73%

    14The sower sows the word.

  • Rev 14:15-16
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    15Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”

    16So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
    73%

    10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

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

    38Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest-ready fields.”

  • Mark 4:20
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    20But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

  • Matt 13:37-40
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    37He answered,“The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

    38The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,

    39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

    40As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

  • Ps 129:7
    73%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Mark 4:8
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    8But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    72%

    18For the scripture says,“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and,“The worker deserves his pay.”

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Mark 4:3
    71%

    3“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

    24The Parable of the Weeds He presented them with another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

  • Prov 11:18
    71%

    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

  • Matt 13:8
    71%

    8But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  • Luke 10:2
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    2He said to them,“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

  • Prov 10:5
    70%

    5The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.

  • Matt 20:7
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    7They said to him,‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them,‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

  • Mark 4:26
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

  • Prov 11:30
    70%

    30The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

  • John 12:24
    70%

    24I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

  • Luke 18:30
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    30who will not receive many times more in this age– and in the age to come, eternal life.”