Devine Scripture

2 Timothy 2:6

2 Timothy chapter 2 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

v.6This passage

v.7Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 21:33

    Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

  • Matthew 9:37

    Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

  • Matthew 20:1

    For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

  • Isaiah 28:24

    Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

  • John 4:35

    Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:23

    And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.