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John 4:38
I sent you to reape that, whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.
John 4:38 · Geneva 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 Say not ye, There are yet foure moneths, and then commeth haruest? Beholde, I say vnto you, Lift vp your eyes, and looke on the regions: for they are white alreadie vnto haruest.
36 And he that reapeth, receiueth rewarde, and gathereth fruite vnto life eternall, that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, might reioyce together.
37 For herein is the saying true, that one soweth, and an other reapeth.
38 I sent you to reape that, whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.
39 Nowe many of the Samaritans of that citie beleeued in him, for the saying of the woman which testified, He hath tolde me all things that euer I did.
40 Then when the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he woulde tarie with them: and he abode there two dayes.
41 And many moe beleeued because of his owne word.
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