John 4:37
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
In context
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
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- KJV King James Version
— John 4:37 in the KJV
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
- NIV New International Version
— John 4:37 in the NIV
Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.