21 Bible Verses about Not Reaping What You Sow

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing nor harvest.

Be ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruits, like the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.

Speak, So says Jehovah, Even the bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the fallen grain after the reaper; and none shall gather them.

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.

with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his bosom.

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the pressing sword they shall turn, each one to his people; and they shall flee, each one to his own land.

He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.

Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.

then let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

He who watches the wind shall not sow; and he who pays attention to the clouds shall not reap.

Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?

For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.

And he who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

His lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful servant! You knew that I reaped where I did not sow, and gathered where I did not scatter,

And he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked servant! You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I had not laid down and reaping what I did not sow.

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.