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John 4:38
I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.
John 4:38 · Darby 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 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 Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
36 He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
37 For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.
38 I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.
39 But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.
40 When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.
41 And more a great deal believed on account of his word;
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