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 it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest [is] plentiful, but the workers [are] few.

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a man--the master of the house--who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

And he said to them, "The harvest [is] plentiful, but the workers [are] few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that he send out workers into his harvest.

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

I do all [this] for the sake of the gospel, in order that I may become a participant with it.

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.