2 Timothy 2:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν δεῖ πρῶτον τῶν καρπῶν μεταλαμβάνειν.

Transliteration

The kopiōnta geōrgon dei prōton tōn karpōn metalambanein.

Grammar Details

*Ton*: definite article, accusative, masculine, singular - the
*kopiōnta*: present, participle, active, accusative, masculine, singular - laboring/toiling
*geōrgon*: accusative, masculine, singular - farmer
*dei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd singular, impersonal - it is necessary
*prōton*: adverb - first
*tōn*: definite article, genitive, masculine, plural - of the
*karpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - fruits/crops/produce
*metalambanein*: present, infinitive, active - to partake/share

Word Meanings

*kopiōnta*: laboring/toiling/working hard
*geōrgon*: farmer/field worker/cultivator
*dei*: it is necessary/must/ought
*prōton*: first/before others
*karpōn*: fruits/produce/harvest/crops
*metalambanein*: to partake/share in/receive portion

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Referenced Verses

Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Isa 28:24-26 : 24 Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he [continually] open and harrow his ground? 25 When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof? 26 For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him.
Matt 9:37-38 : 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.
Matt 20:1 : 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.
Matt 21:33-41 : 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. 34 And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner. 37 But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance. 39 And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Luke 10:2 : 2 And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.
John 4:35-38 : 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. 36 He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 For herein is the saying true, One {G2076} soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Do I speak these things {G3361} after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. {G3361} Is it for the oxen that God careth, 10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking. 11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

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