2 Timothy 2:6
It behooves the toiling farmer first to partake of the fruits.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.
7Know what I say; for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a landlord man, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16The one having received the five talents going immediately, operated with the same, and made other five talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest
1 Corinthians 9:7Whoever goes to war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? or who shepherdizes a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit 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 →