21 Bible Verses about Not Reaping What You Sow

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Genesis 45:6

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Joel 1:11

Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

Micah 7:1

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Micah 6:15

You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

Psalm 129:7

with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

Psalm 78:46

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

Job 5:5

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 31:8

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

Luke 19:21

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

Matthew 25:24

"He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

Matthew 25:26

"But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

Luke 19:22

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

John 4:38

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

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