2 Timothy 2:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ The husbandman must labour before he partaketh of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say, and may the

²⁴ Will the ploughman plough the whole day? Or prepare seed before he hath tilled the ground? ²⁵ Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face of the soil, then sow the small dill or cummin? and again sow wheat and barley and millet and rye in all thy borders? ²⁶ So thou shalt be corrected by the judgment of God; and be made glad.

³⁷ Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. ³⁸ Supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers for his harvest.

¹ For the reign of the heavens is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.

³³ Hear another parable. There was a certain landlord who planted a vineyard and hedged it around, and dug therein a wine lake, and built a tower, and let it to tenants and went to a distant country. ³⁴ And when the fruit season approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to receive the fruits of it. ³⁵ But the tenants seizing his servants, beat one and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants in greater number than the first, and they treated them in the same manner. ³⁷ At last he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. ³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance. ³⁹ So, seizing him, they turned him out of the vineyard and slew him. ⁴⁰ Now when the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to these tenants? ⁴¹ They say to him, "Wretches! he will put them to a wretched death: and his vineyard he will let to others; who will render him the fruits in their seasons."

² and he said to them, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Entreat therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers for his harvest.

³⁵ Do you not say, Yet four months, and the harvest cometh. Behold I say to you, Lift up your eyes and view the fields; for they are already white for harvest. ³⁶ And he who reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit for an everlasting life, that he who soweth, and he who reapeth, may rejoice together. ³⁷ For herein is that saying verified, that one soweth, and another reapeth. ³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labour. Others have laboured and you have entered on their labours.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ⁷ So that neither the planter nor the waterer is any thing; it is God only who giveth growth. ⁸ Now he who planteth and he who watereth are all one; and each shall receive his peculiar reward according to his peculiar labour. ⁹ For we are fellow labourers belonging to God; you are God's field; you are his building.

⁷ Who goeth to war any time at his own expenses? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of that flock? ⁸ Do I say these things according to the custom of human affairs? Doth not the law say the same? ⁹ For in the law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn": Is God solicitous for oxen? ¹⁰ Or doth he not unquestionably say this for our sake? For us indeed it was written, because he who plougheth ought to plough in hope; and he who thresheth in hope ought to partake of his hope. ¹¹ If we have sown for you spiritual things is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

²³ And this I do in consequence of the glad tidings that I may be a joint sharer thereof.

³⁶ For you must persevere, that when you have performed the will of God, you may receive the promised reward.