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You have a saying, "Four more months and then the harvest.' But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested!
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The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so the one who plants and the one who reaps will be glad together.
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For the saying is true, "Someone plants, someone else reaps.'
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I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work."
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Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, "He told me everything I have ever done."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.