¹⁰ Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that ^(A)he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

⁶ The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

⁹ For ^(A)we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are ^(B)God’s building.

⁴ For ^(A)whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the ^[a]patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

²³ Now ^(A)it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, ²⁴ but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe ^(B)in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

¹⁵ For ^(A)all things are for your sakes, that ^(B)grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^(A)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^(B)for they are already white for harvest! ^36 (C)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^(D)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this the saying is true: ^(E)‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^(F)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

⁷ And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? ⁸ But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself ^(A)and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’?

²² And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; ^(A)but for the ^[a]elect’s sake those days will be shortened.