John 4:36

World English Bible (2000)

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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  • Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 3:5-9 : 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. 8 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
  • Dan 12:3 : 3 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

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

    38I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

  • John 4:35
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    35Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

  • Gal 6:6-9
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    6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

    7Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

    9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

    6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.

  • Matt 13:29-30
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    29"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

    29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

  • 1 Cor 3:8
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    8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

  • Job 24:6
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    6They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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

  • Jas 5:4
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    4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

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

  • Rev 14:15-16
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    15Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"

    16He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

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

    38Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."

  • Mark 4:20
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    20Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

  • Matt 13:37-40
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    37He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

    38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

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

    40As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Mark 4:8
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    8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

    37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
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    18For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

  • Ps 107:37
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    37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

    24He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

  • Prov 11:18
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    18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  • Luke 10:2
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    2Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

  • Prov 10:5
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    5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Matt 20:7
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    7"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

  • Mark 4:26
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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

  • Prov 11:30
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    30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

  • John 12:24
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    24Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

  • Luke 18:30
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    30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."