2 Timothy 2:6
The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.
Isaiah 28:24-26
Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Matthew 9:37-38
Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
Matthew 20:1
The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:33-41
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
Luke 10:2
He said to them: The harvest indeed is great but the laborers are few. Pray that the Master (Controller) (Lord) of the harvest will send laborers into his harvest.
John 4:35-38
Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest.
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.
1 Corinthians 9:7-11
Does a soldier serve at his own expense? Does the one who plants a vineyard not eat of the fruit it produces? Who shepherds a flock and does not eat some of the milk from the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:23
And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.
Hebrews 10:36
You need to persevere in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.