John 4:37

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
  • Job 31:8 : 8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

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  • John 4:35-36
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    35 Don'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.

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

  • John 4:38
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    38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

  • 1 Cor 3:7-8
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    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.

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

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8 For 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Job 4:8
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    8 According to what 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 will reap in joy.

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

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

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

    4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10 or 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

    30 Let 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."'"

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10 Now 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;

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

  • Mark 4:8
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    8 Others 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 Tim 5:18
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    18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

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

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

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

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

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

  • Mark 4:25-26
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    25 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

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

  • Mark 4:20
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    20 Those 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 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.'

  • Hos 8:7
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    7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Matt 13:27
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    27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

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

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4 He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards the clouds won't reap.

  • Matt 20:4
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    4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

  • Jas 5:4
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    4 Behold, 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.

  • Luke 10:2
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    2 Then 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.

  • Matt 13:24
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    24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

  • John 12:24
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    24 Most 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 8:5
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    5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.