Devine Scripture

John 4:37

John chapter 4 · verse 37 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Context

v.36He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

v.37This passage

v.38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 6:3

    And 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

    for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou layedst not down, and reapest that which thou didst not sow.

  • Job 31:8

    Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Micah 6:15

    Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.