2 Timothy 2:6
The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.
7Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16And he that had received the five talents went and trafficked with them, and made five other talents.
John 4:35Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of endurance in order 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 →