2 Timothy 2:6

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Summary

2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Husbandman

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

1 Corinthians 9:23

Hebrews 10:36

Bible References

Husbandman

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.

For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.