21 Bible Verses about Not Reaping What You Sow

The famine has been in the land for two years. There will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.

Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Too bad for me! For I am like the gathered summer fruit, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. I desire the first ripe fig.

This is what Jehovah says: Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.'

The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.

You will sow and not reap. You will tread the olives, but will not be anointed with oil! And you will grow the grapes but you will not drink the wine.

The reaper does not fill his hand with it, or the binder of sheaves his bosom.

Do not allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest. Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland because of the enemies' swords.

He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.

Hungry people eat what a stubborn fool gathers. They take it even from among the thorns. Thirsty people pant after his wealth.

then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.

He who observes the wind will not sow and he that regards the clouds will not reap.

Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

Consider the ravens for they do not sow or reap. They have no storehouse or barn. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

I feared you because you are an austere man. You take up what you do not lay down and you reap that which you did not sow.

The servant who received one talent said: 'Lord, I knew you to be a hard man. You reap where you did not sow and gather where you did not scatter.

But his lord answered: 'You wicked and lazy servant. You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.

He said to him: Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.