2 Timothy 2:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.”
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BSBPD
“The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 2 Timothy 2:6 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 28:24Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
- Matthew 9:37Then 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 workers for his vineyard.
- Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Matthew 25:16The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
- Luke 10:2And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.
- John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
- 1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- 1 Corinthians 9:23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
- Hebrews 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
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