John 4:37
Good News Translation
For the saying is true, 'Someone plants, someone else reaps.'

New Revised Standard Version
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Contemporary English Version
So the saying proves true, "Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop."

New American Bible
For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

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Judges 6:3 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:

Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

Luke 19:21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.

Context
The Disciples Return and Marvel
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. 38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.…
Cross References
Job 31:8
Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.

Micah 6:15
Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

John 4:36
And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

John 4:38
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

John 14:12
Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and greater than these shall he do.

John 4:36
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