2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labours must be first to partake of the fruits.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
7Consider what I say; and the Lord will give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers to work in his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Then he who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and gained another five talents.
John 4:35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are already white for harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock, and does not drink of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For you have need of endurance, that, after you have done the will of God, you might 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 →