2 Timothy 2:6

Exhortation To Be Strong In Grace

⁵ Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. ⁶ The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his 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 farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

Matthew 9:37-38

Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, 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 laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 21:33-41

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Luke 10:2

And He was saying to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

John 4:35-38

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

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

1 Corinthians 9:7-11

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.