21 Bible Verses about Not Reaping What You Sow

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

"They cry, 'Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.'

I am depressed! Indeed, it is as if the summer fruit has been gathered, and the grapes have been harvested. There is no grape cluster to eat, no fresh figs that I crave so much.

Tell your daughters and neighbors, 'The Lord says, "The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered."'"

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon. Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. Let all the foreigners return to their own people. Let them hurry back to their own lands to escape destruction by that enemy army.

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.'

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, 'Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

But his master answered, 'Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn't sow and gather where I didn't scatter?

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."