John 4:38 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁸ “I sent you to reap that for which you have not laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ I sent you to reap a crop for which you have not toiled. Other men have labored and you have stepped in to reap the results of their work.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

Common English Bible

³⁸ I have sent you to harvest what you didn’t work hard for; others worked hard, and you will share in their hard work.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors."

John 4:38 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15

And יהוה  Elohim of their fathers sent to them, by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Jeremiah 44:4

‘And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Please do not do this abominable matter that I hate!”

Matthew 4:23

And יהושע  went about all Galil, teaching in their congregations, and proclaiming the Good News of the reign, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.

John 1:7

This one came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all might believe through him.

John 17:18

“As You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.

John 4:37

“For in this the word is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

John 4:39

And many of the Shomeronites of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who witnessed, “He told me all that I have done.”

Acts 2:41

Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them.

Acts 4:32

And the group of those who believed were of one heart and one being. And no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had all in common.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

And more believers were added to the Master, large numbers of both men and women,

Acts 6:7

And the Word of Elohim spread, and the number of the taught ones increased greatly in Yerushalayim, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the belief.

2 Corinthians 10:15

not boasting beyond measure in the labours of others, but having an expectation, that as your belief grows, we shall be greatly enlarged by you, according to our limits,