Thematic Bible: Spiritual Labourers


Thematic Bible




Do you not say, There are yet four months, and the harvest comes? behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields; for they are white for a harvest. Already he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life eternal, that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

And when it was evening the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them the wages [stipulated], beginning from the last even to the first. Verse ConceptsBeginningMastersOverseersMetaphorical VineyardsBeginning And EndIn TurnLast OnesOthers Summoning

Then he said to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers few. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest to thrust laborers into his harvest.

Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double compensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching. For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes; and, The laborer is worthy of his reward.