2Tim 2:6 Cross References

2 Timothy 2:6

6: Hardworking farmers are the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

What soldier has to pay his own expenses? And have you ever heard of a farmer who harvests his crop and doesn't have the right to eat some of it? What shepherd takes care of a flock of sheep and isn't allowed to drink some of the milk?
And this isn't merely human opinion. Doesn't God's law say the same thing?
For the law of Moses says, "Do not keep an ox from eating as it treads out the grain." Do you suppose God was thinking only about oxen when he said this?
Wasn't he also speaking to us? Of course he was. Just as farm workers who plow fields and thresh the grain expect a share of the harvest, Christian workers should be paid by those they serve.
We have planted good spiritual seed among you. Is it too much to ask, in return, for mere food and clothing?

Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting it?
Does he not finally plant his seeds for dill, cumin, wheat, barley, and spelt, each in its own section of his land?
The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding.

"Now listen to this story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.
At the time of the grape harvest he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.
But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.
"Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, 'Surely they will respect my son.'

Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest.
The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!
You know the saying, 'One person plants and someone else harvests.' And it's true.
I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant; others had already done the work, and you will gather the harvest."

My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow.
The ones who do the planting or watering aren't important, but God is important because he is the one who makes the seed grow.
The one who plants and the one who waters work as a team with the same purpose. Yet they will be rewarded individually, according to their own hard work.
We work together as partners who belong to God. You are God's field, God's building--not ours.

He said to his disciples, "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few.
So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields."

"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

These were his instructions to them: "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. Pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest, and ask him to send out more workers for his fields.

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