2 Timothy 2:6
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.
7Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.
Matthew 25:16Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.
John 4:35You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
Hebrews 10:36For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
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 →