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

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.