2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer that does all the hard work should be the first to benefit from the crop.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5Similarly athletes who compete in the games don't win a prize if they don't keep to the rules.
7Think about what I'm telling you. The Lord will help you to understand all this.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Does the farmer spend all his time plowing? Does he spend all his time preparing the soil?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Immediately the one with five talents went and invested them in a business, and made another five talents.
John 4:35Don't you have a saying, ‘four more months until harvest?’ Open your eyes and look around! The crops in the fields are ripe, ready for harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Which soldier ever had to pay his own salary? Who plants a vineyard and doesn't get to eat its fruits? Who feeds a flock and doesn't consume its milk?
Hebrews 10:36You need to be patient so that having done what God wants, you'll receive what he has promised.
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 →