^7 (A)Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? ^(B)Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

⁶ And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not ^(A)enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

^3 (A)Share in suffering as ^(B)a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No soldier ^(C)gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

^6 (A)I planted, ^(B)Apollos watered, ^(C)but God gave the growth. ⁷ So ^(D)neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸ He who plants and he who waters are one, and each ^(E)will receive his wages according to his labor.

¹⁸ This charge ^(A)I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with ^(B)the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may ^(C)wage the good warfare,

^28 (A)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all ^(B)the flock, in which ^(C)the Holy Spirit has made you ^(D)overseers, ^(E)to care for ^(F)the church of God,^[a] which he ^(G)obtained ^(H)with his own blood.^[b]

² Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning ^(A)the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. ^(B)Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord. ^3 (C)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock ^(D)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, ^(E)and they shall be fruitful and multiply.