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

1 Corinthians 9:7

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

1 Corinthians 9:23

Hebrews 10:36

Bible References

Husbandman

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few.

For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

And he said to them, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few. So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it.

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

What soldier ever pays his expenses out of his own pay? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the grapes? Who tends a flock and does not get any of the milk?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so that I may share in its blessings along with the rest.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.