John 4:37

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John 4:35–39 · Berean Standard Bible

35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

37 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

Micah 6:15

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Luke 19:21

For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’