John 4:37

Bible in Basic English 1965

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

Cross References

Job 31:8

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

Micah 6:15

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

Luke 19:21

Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

John 14:12

Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

John 4:36

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

John 4:38

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

Judges 6:3

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;