2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labours must be the first to get a share of the crops.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
7Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Does he who ploughs to sow plough continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
Matthew 20:1“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
John 4:35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
1 Corinthians 9:7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
Hebrews 10:36For you need endurance 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 →