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John 4:38
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
John 4:38 · Bible in Basic English
John 4:38 in other translations
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
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.”
I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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In context
35 You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
37 In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.
38 I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
39 Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.
40 So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.
41 And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.
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