John 4:37

And herein is that saying (o. logos) true, One sows, and another reaps.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

In Context

36And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap that whereon all of you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and all of you are entered into their labours.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Luke 19:21For I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that you layed not down, and reap that you did not sow.

Matthew Henry on John 4:28-43

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to… Read the whole commentary →

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