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2 Timothy 2:6

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The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.

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The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more.

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 field.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.