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John 4:38
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.”
John 4:38 · Berean Standard Bible
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 that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
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In context
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.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of His message.
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