38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."


In Context

35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.

38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

John 4:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:38I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:38I sent you to reap that where on you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.