2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labors must be the first to partake of the fruits.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.
7Consider what I say, for may the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a house-ruler, who went out in the early morning at the same time to hire workmen for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16And having departed, the man who received the five talents worked with them, and made five other talents.
John 4:35Do ye not say, There are still four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:2-8
Ministerial Fortitude. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,… Read the whole commentary →