2 Timothy 2:6
The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
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- Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
- 1 Corinthians 9:7–9 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? Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
- 1 Corinthians 3:6–8 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.