2 Timothy 2:6
It is necessary that, the farmer should labor, before he partakes of the fruits.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
7Consider what I say, for I pray that the Lord may give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with them, and made other five talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are already white for the harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you 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 →