2 Timothy 2:6
The harvestman who labours in the field must be the first to get a share of the crop.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
In Context
5And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
7Mark well what I am saying: the Lord will give you discernment in everything.
Cross References
Matthew 20:1"For the Kingdom of the Heavens is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard,
Matthew 25:16Without delay the one who had received the five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more.
John 4:35Do you not say, `It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.
1 Corinthians 9:7What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
Hebrews 10:36For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
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 →