2 Timothy 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [It is] the hard-working farmer [who labors to produce] who must be the first partaker of the fruits.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

Common English Bible

⁶ A hardworking farmer should get the first share of the crop.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The farmer who labors ought to be the first to share in the produce.

2 Timothy 2:6 Cross References

Hebrews 10:36

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

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I might become a partner in it.

Luke 10:2

He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

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.

Proverbs 27:18

Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.

2 Timothy 2:7

Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.

Hebrews 6:7

Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it repeatedly and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

Matthew 25:16

the one who had received the five talents went off and traded with them and made five more talents.