2 Timothy 2:6
It is necessary for the hard-working farmer to be first to receive of the fruits.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
7Consider the things I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Then the one receiving the five talents went and traded with them, and made five other talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For you have need of endurance, so that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 1
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 →