2 Timothy 2:6

In 9 translations

BSB

The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

KJV

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

WEB

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

ASV

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

LSV

it is first necessary [for] the laboring farmer to partake of the fruits;

YLT

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

DBY

The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

DRC

The husbandman, that laboureth, must first partake of the fruits.

GNV

The husbandman must labour before he receiue the fruites.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν δεῖ πρῶτον τῶν καρπῶν μεταλαμβάνειν.

RP2018

Τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν δεῖ πρῶτον τῶν καρπῶν μεταλαμβάνειν.

TR-Boyd

Τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν δεῖ πρῶτον τῶν καρπῶν μεταλαμβάνειν.

SCR1894

τον κοπιωντα γεωργον δει πρωτον των καρπων μεταλαμβανειν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Hebrews 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
• 1 Corinthians 9:7–11Who 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? Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same…
• 1 Corinthians 3:6–9I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each…
• Matthew 9:37–38Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”
• 1 Corinthians 9:23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
• 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 4:35–38Do 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. Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal…
• Isaiah 28:24–26Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,…
• 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 21:33–41Listen 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. When the…

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