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

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few;

'For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

then said he unto them, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

That laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,