2 Timothy 2:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Heb 10:36 : 36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
  • Isa 28:24-26 : 24 The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground! 25 Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie `in' its own border? 26 And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.
  • Matt 9:37-38 : 37 then saith he to his disciples, `The harvest indeed `is' abundant, but the workmen few; 38 beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'
  • Matt 20:1 : 1 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
  • Matt 21:33-41 : 33 `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. 34 `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it, 35 and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. 36 `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner. 37 `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son; 38 and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance; 39 and having taken him, they cast `him' out of the vineyard, and killed him; 40 whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?' 41 They say to him, `Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'
  • Luke 10:2 : 2 then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed `is' abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.
  • John 4:35-38 : 35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. 36 `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; 37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper. 38 I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.
  • 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; 7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God; 8 and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, 9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
  • 1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat? 8 According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things? 9 for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care? 10 or because of us by all means doth He say `it'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought' of his hope to partake in hope. 11 If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it' if we your fleshly things do reap?
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

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    4no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

    5and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

  • 1 Cor 3:7-9
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    7so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

    8and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

    9for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

  • John 4:36-38
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    36`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

    37for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

    38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10or because of us by all means doth He say `it'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought' of his hope to partake in hope.

    11If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it' if we your fleshly things do reap?

  • 1 Cor 9:6-7
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    6or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?

    7who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

  • 1 Tim 5:17-18
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    17The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

    18for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy `is' the workman of his reward.'

  • Deut 20:6
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    6`And who `is' the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

    29and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

  • Gal 6:6-9
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    6And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.

    7Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

    8because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

    9and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

  • Prov 16:26
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    26A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

  • Mark 12:2
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    2and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

  • Prov 12:11
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    11Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

  • John 15:1-2
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    1`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

    2every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

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    34`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

  • 1 Cor 9:24-25
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    24have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

    25and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Prov 27:18
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    18The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honoured.

  • Luke 6:44
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    44for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

  • Lev 25:3
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    3`Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

  • Gal 6:4
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    4and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

  • 1 Cor 3:14
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    14if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it', a wage he shall receive;

  • Prov 3:9
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    9Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

  • Prov 10:16
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    16The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

  • 2 Thess 3:10
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    10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath `one' cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

  • Ps 107:37
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    37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

  • Rom 2:6
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    6who shall render to each according to his works;