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