2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
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- Hebrews 10:36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
- 1 Corinthians 9:7–9 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk? Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing? For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- 1 Corinthians 3:6–8 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.