2 Timothy 2:6

Exhortation To Be Strong In Grace

⁵ Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ⁶ The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops. ⁷ Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Of The Earth

Isaiah 28:24-26

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

Matthew 9:37-38

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.

Matthew 20:1

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Matthew 21:33-41

“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Luke 10:2

He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

John 4:35-38

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

1 Corinthians 9:7-11

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

1 Corinthians 9:23

Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.