The farmer who labors should be first to partake of the crops.
For you need patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive the promise.
This I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might partake of it with you.
He said to them, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master will be honored.
Consider what I am saying, and may the Lord grant you understanding in all things.
For land that drinks in the rain that often falls upon it and bears a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.
He who had received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents.