2 Timothy 2:6
The hardworking farmer ought to receive the first share of the crops.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5Similarly, an athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
7Think about what I am saying. May the Lord give yoʋ understanding in everything.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16The man who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made five more talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are already ripe for harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who at any time serves as a soldier while supplying his own provisions? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
Hebrews 10:36For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what was 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 →