2 Timothy 2:6

2 Timothy 2:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
• New International Version (NIV)The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.
• English Standard Version (ESV)It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

Context of 2 Timothy 2:6

4No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier. 5And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully. The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits. 7Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things. 8Remember Jesus Christ raised from among [the] dead, of [the] seed of David, according to my glad tidings,

2 Timothy 2:6 word by word

τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν δεῖ πρῶτον τῶν καρπῶν μεταλαμβάνειν·Read the interlinear

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Cross-references for 2 Timothy 2:6

• Isaiah 28:24Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
• Matthew 9:37Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest [is] great and the workmen [are] few;
• Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
• Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
• Luke 10:2And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.
• John 4:35Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
• 1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
• 1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
• 1 Corinthians 9:23And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
• Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Commentaries on 2 Timothy 2:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6The husbandman that laboureth - That is: The husbandman must first till his ground before he can expect a crop; and he must till it according to the proper rules of agriculture, else he cannot have a crop. The combatant must fight and conquer, and fight according to the laws of the agones, before he can be crowned; so the Christian minister must labor in the spiritual vineyard, and labor too under the eye and according to the direction of his Master…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The husbandman that laboureth - The margin is, “labouring first, must be partaker.” The idea, according to the translation in the text, is, that there is a fitness or propriety ( dei) that the man who cultivates the earth, should enjoy the fruits of his labor. See the same image explained in the notes at 1 Corinthians 9:10. But if this be the meaning here, it is not easy to see why the apostle introduces it. According to the marginal reading, the word…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-7Paul quickly quotes a series of sayings about hard work, struggle, and reward.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. must be first partaker--The right of first partaking of the fruits belongs to him who is laboring; do not thou, therefore, relax thy labors, as thou wouldest be foremost in partaking of the reward. Conybeare explains "first," before the idler.Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Timothy 2:6

• Agriculture
• Minister, Christian
• Parables

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Commentaries on 2 Timothy 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings