2 Timothy 2:6
The husbandman that laboreth must be the first partaker of the fruits.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if a man contendeth in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contendeth lawfully.
7Understand what I say; for the Lord will give thee apprehension in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Is the ploughman always ploughing in order to sow? Is he always opening and harrowing his field?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16He that had received the five talents went immediately and traded with the same, and gained five talents more.
John 4:35Do ye not say, There are yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Lo! I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of endurance; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive what is 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 →