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Matthew 6:26 θερίζουσιν do they reap

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Here: The second step: cutting the ripe grain in spring and early summer.

Matthew 25:24 θερίζων reaping

Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

Here: "Reaping." A present participle, describing what he habitually does. It pictures a man who takes harvests from fields he did no work in.

Matthew 25:26 θερίζω I reap

‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Here: 'I reap'. The present tense describes a habit: this is what the master does as a rule. He is quoting the slave's own picture of him (v. 24).

Luke 12:24 θερίζουσιν they reap

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

Here: Harvesting, the last stage of the farming year. With 'sow' it covers the whole cycle of planting and gathering, and ravens take part in none of it.

Luke 19:21 θερίζεις you reap

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

Luke 19:22 θερίζων reaping

His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

Here: 'Reaping.' A farming picture: gathering a harvest.

John 4:36 θερίζων θερίζων. reaping, is reaping.

Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Here: 'The reaper': the field hand cutting ripe grain. The present tense pictures someone in the middle of the job right now, which picks up 'the fields are already white for harvest' (v. 35).

John 4:37 θερίζων. is reaping.

For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

Here: "The reaper": the person who brings in the grain at harvest. In v. 36 this is the one who "draws wages" and "gathers fruit for eternal life". In v. 38 it is the disciples.

John 4:38 θερίζειν to reap

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

Here: Their purpose is to reap. This picks up 4:35–37, where the fields are 'white for harvest'. In Jewish imagery, harvest pointed to the gathering of God's people at the decisive moment.

1 Corinthians 9:11 θερίσομεν; will reap?

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

2 Corinthians 9:6 θερίσει, θερίσει. will reap,, will reap.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Here: Future tense: the harvest follows the sowing, as it does in farming. Verses 8–11 say what this harvest is.

Galatians 6:7 θερίσει· he will reap;

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Here: "He will reap." The future tense matters. The harvest comes later, at the proper time (v. 9). Verse 8 shows Paul has God's final judgment in view: ruin or eternal life.

Galatians 6:8 θερίσει θερίσει will reap

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Here: Future tense: the harvest still lies ahead, at the final reckoning ('in due time', v.9). In Jewish and early Christian speech 'harvest' was a common picture of the end-time judgment.

Galatians 6:9 θερίσομεν we will reap a harvest

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Here: Future indicative, a flat statement of certainty: 'we will reap'. It continues the sowing and reaping image of vv. 7–8, where the Spirit's harvest is 'eternal life'.

James 5:4 θερισάντων having harvested

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Here: The ordinary word for harvesting, a variation on "mowed" above. Same people, same finished work. The harvest image also sets up the coming harvest of judgment (5:5, 5:7).

Revelation 14:15 θέρισον, θερίσαι, do reap,, to reap,

Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

Here: Cut and gather the grain. In biblical imagery this means the final gathering at the end of the age. The aorist command is decisive: 'reap!'

Revelation 14:16 ἐθερίσθη was harvested

So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.