2 Timothy 2:6
—the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive of the fruits.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
7Ponder what I am saying; may the Lord indeed give you understanding in it all.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16So the one who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes?’ Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already!
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 of its milk?
Hebrews 10:36You need perseverance so that, having 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 →