2 Timothy 2:6
New International Version
The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.

New Living Translation
And hardworking farmers should be the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

English Standard Version
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

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

Berean Literal Bible
It is necessary for the hardworking farmer first to partake of the fruits.

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

New King James Version
The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

New American Standard Bible
The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

NASB 1995
The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

NASB 1977
The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

Legacy Standard Bible
The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

Amplified Bible
The hard-working farmer [who labors to produce crops] ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

Christian Standard Bible
The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
It is fitting for the plowman who toils that he first be sustained by his crop.

Contemporary English Version
And farmers who work hard are the first to eat what grows in their field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The husbandman, that laboureth, must first partake of the fruits.

English Revised Version
The husbandman that laboureth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A hard-working farmer should have the first share of the crops.

Good News Translation
The farmer who has done the hard work should have the first share of the harvest.

International Standard Version
Furthermore, it is the hard working farmer who should have the first share of the crops.

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

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

New American Bible
The hardworking farmer ought to have the first share of the crop.

NET Bible
The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

New Revised Standard Version
It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.

New Heart English Bible
The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Webster's Bible Translation
The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Weymouth New Testament
The harvestman who labours in the field must be the first to get a share of the crop.

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

Young's Literal Translation
the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

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Context
Grace and Perseverance
5Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules. 6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops. 7Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.…

Cross References
Proverbs 27:18
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

1 Corinthians 9:10
Isn't He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

2 Timothy 2:7
Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.

Hebrews 6:7
For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.


Treasury of Scripture

The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.

husbandman.

Isaiah 28:24-26
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? …

Matthew 9:37,38
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; …

Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

1 Corinthians 9:23
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

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2 Timothy 2
1. Timothy is exhorted again to constancy and perseverance.
17. Of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
19. The foundation of the Lord is sure.
22. He is taught whereof to beware, and what to follow after.














(6) The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.--Again the picture is painted from every-day life. "The husbandman that laboureth"--with an emphasis upon "that laboureth"--is the successful tiller of the ground; "the labouring husbandman" it is, for whom the earth brings forth her increase. It is the enduring, patient, self-sacrificing toil that is rewarded in the affairs of common life--the man that "endures hardness," whether as a soldier, or athlete, or tiller of the ground, wins the reward; and as in the world, so in religion. Further on in the Epistle the Apostle speaks of his having won the crown of righteousness. He had endured hardness of every conceivable kind; every affliction for the Lord's sake he had endured save death, and that he was expecting, and knew it could not long tarry. The teaching of St. Paul in this triple picture is--not every soldier wins its commander's applause, but only the veteran who devotes himself heart and soul to his profession; not every athlete wins the crown or prize, but only he who trains with anxious, painful care; not every tiller of the ground gathers the earth's fruits, but only the patient toiler. So must it be in religious life. It is not enough to say we are Christians, or even to wish to be of the brotherhood of Christ. Men must really live the life they say they love.

Verse 6. - The first to partake for first partaker, A.V. That laboureth (τὸν κοπιῶντα). Let not Timothy think to shirk labour and yet enjoy its fruits. (For κοπιάω, see note on 1 Timothy 5:17.)

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Greek
The
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

hardworking
κοπιῶντα (kopiōnta)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2872: From a derivative of kopos; to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard.

farmer
γεωργὸν (geōrgon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1092: From ge and the base of ergon; a land-worker, i.e. Farmer.

should be
δεῖ (dei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1163: Third person singular active present of deo; also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is Necessary.

the first
πρῶτον (prōton)
Adverb - Superlative
Strong's 4412: First, in the first place, before, formerly. Neuter of protos as adverb; firstly.

to receive his share
μεταλαμβάνειν (metalambanein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 3335: From meta and lambano; to participate; genitive case, to accept.

of the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

crops.
καρπῶν (karpōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.


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