2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer that labours must be first partaker of the fruits.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
7Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:24Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?
Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Matthew 25:16Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
John 4:35Say not all of you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
Hebrews 10:36For all of you have need of patience, that, after all of you have done the will of God, all of 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 →