2 Timothy 2:6
it is first necessary [for] the laboring farmer to partake of the fruits;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5and if anyone also may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
7be considering what things I say, for the LORD gives to you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!
Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
Matthew 25:16And he who received the five talents, having gone, worked with them, and made five other talents;
John 4:35do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest comes; behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white to harvest already.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36for you have need of patience, 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 →