For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
because I was afraid you, since you are an exacting man. You withdraw what you didn’t deposit, and reap what you didn’t sow.’
Whenever Israel planted crops, the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.
I sent y’all to reap what y’all didn’t work for. Others have started the work, and y’all have benefited from their labor.”
Very truly I tell y’all, anyone who believes in me and the works that I do, they will do these and even greater works, because I am going to my Father.
