John 4:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
  • Job 31:8 : 8 then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

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    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!

    36The 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 3:7-8
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    7So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

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

  • 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.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    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.

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

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    14The sower sows the word.

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

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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.

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

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    3“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

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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.

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    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

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    37Then he said to his disciples,“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

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

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    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.

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

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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.”

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

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

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

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    37He answered,“The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

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    6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

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    25For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

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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.”

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    27So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him,‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the darnel come from?’

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    9Labor is Beneficial When Its Rewards Are Shared Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor.

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    4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

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    4He said to them,‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

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    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.

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    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.

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    5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.