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Source language
Original Greek   
ἐν γὰρ τούτῳ ὁ λόγος ⸀ἐστὶν ἀληθινὸς ὅτι Ἄλλος ἐστὶν ὁ σπείρων καὶ ἄλλος ὁ θερίζων·
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
en gar touto o logos restin alethinos oti Allos estin o speiron kai allos o therizon*

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
in hoc enim est verbum verum quia alius est qui seminat et alius est qui metit

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And in this is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
Authorized (King James) Version   
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
New King James Version   
For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
21st Century King James Version   
And herein is that saying true, ‘One soweth and another reapeth.’

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
For in this is a word of truth, that 'One sows and another reaps.'
Darby Bible Translation   
For in this is verified the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
God's Word   
In this respect the saying is true: 'One person plants, and another person harvests.'
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For in this case the saying is true: One sows and another reaps.'
International Standard Version   
In this respect the saying is true: 'One person sows, and another person harvests.'
NET Bible   
For in this instance the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
New American Standard Bible   
"For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
New International Version   
Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.
New Living Translation   
You know the saying, 'One plants and another harvests.' And it's true.
Webster's Bible Translation   
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
Weymouth New Testament   
For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'
The World English Bible   
For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
EasyEnglish Bible   
You also say, “One person plants the seeds and another person brings in the fruit.” Now you can see that this is true.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
New Life Version   
These words are true, ‘One man plants and another man gathers.’
Revised Geneva Translation   
“For herein is the true saying: that one sows and another reaps.
The Voice Bible   
The saying may be old, but it is true: “One person sows, and another reaps.”
Living Bible   
For it is true that one sows and someone else reaps.
New Catholic Bible   
“Thus, the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Legacy Standard Bible   
For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Jubilee Bible 2000   
And herein is that saying true, One sows and another reaps.
Christian Standard Bible   
For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For in this the saying holds true, One sows and another reaps.
New Century Version   
Here the saying is true, ‘One person plants, and another harvests.’
The Message   
“The Harvester isn’t waiting. He’s taking his pay, gathering in this grain that’s ripe for eternal life. Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant. That’s the truth of the saying, ‘This one sows, that one harvests.’ I sent you to harvest a field you never worked. Without lifting a finger, you have walked in on a field worked long and hard by others.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Indeed in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
For in this the saying is true, ‘One · sows and another · reaps.’
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
New Matthew Bible   
And this saying is true, that one sows and another reaps.
Good News Translation®   
For the saying is true, ‘Someone plants, someone else reaps.’
Wycliffe Bible   
In this thing is the word true, For one is that soweth, and another that reapeth.
New Testament for Everyone   
This is where that saying comes true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
Contemporary English Version   
So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Jesus said to them, “My food is doing the will of him who sent me and finishing the work he has given me. Don’t you say, ‘Four months more and then comes the harvest’? But I tell you to open your eyes and look to the field—they are gleaming white, all ready for the harvest! The reaper is already being rewarded and getting in a harvest for eternal life, so that both sower and reaper may be glad together. For in this harvest the old saying comes true, ‘One man sows and another reaps.’ I have sent you to reap a harvest for which you never laboured; other men have worked hard and you have reaped the results of their labours.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.”
Common English Bible © 2011   
This is a true saying, that one sows and another harvests.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’
New American Standard Bible   
For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
The Expanded Bible   
[L For] ·Here [in this case] the saying is true, ‘One person ·plants [sows], and another ·harvests [reaps].’
Tree of Life Version   
For the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Revised Standard Version   
For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
New International Reader's Version   
Here is a true saying. ‘One plants and another gathers.’
BRG Bible   
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
Complete Jewish Bible   
for in this matter, the proverb, ‘One sows and another reaps,’ holds true.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
I sent you to gather what you did not help to plant. Other people have worked hard and you have been helped through their work.'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.”
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps. [Job 31: 8; Mic 6:15]
Names of God Bible   
In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’
Modern English Version   
For in this is the saying true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
Easy-to-Read Version   
It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another person harvests the crop.’
International Children’s Bible   
It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another harvests the crop.’
Lexham English Bible   
For in this instance the saying is true, ‘It is one who sows and another who reaps.’
New International Version - UK   
Thus the saying “One sows and another reaps” is true.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
For in this case the saying is true, that ‘One is the one sowing and another is the one reaping.