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, but the reapers are few;

"For the Kingdom of the Heavens is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard,

"Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, made a fence round it, dug a wine-tank in it, and built a strong lodge; then let the place to vine-dressers, and went abroad.

And He addressed them thus: "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few: therefore entreat the Owner of the harvest to send out more reapers into His fields. And now go.

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.