2 Timothy 2:6
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6 It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.
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Hebrews 10:36
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36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:7-11
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7 Who at any time pays the expenses for doing military service? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not get any of its milk?(A)
8 Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?(B) 10 Or does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was indeed written for our sake, for whoever plows should plow in hope and whoever threshes should thresh in hope of a share in the crop. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we harvest material[a] things?(C)
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- 9.11 Gk fleshly
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
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6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.(A) 9 For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.(B)
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John 4:35-38
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35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.(A) 36 The reaper is already receiving[a] wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.(B) 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’(C) 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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. . . the fields are already ripe for harvesting. The reaper is receiving
Matthew 21:33-41
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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away.(A) 34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce.(B) 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.(C) 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them in the same way. 37 Then he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’(D) 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”(E)
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Isaiah 28:24-26
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24 Do those who plow for sowing plow continually?
Do they continually open and harrow their ground?
25 When they have leveled its surface,
do they not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and plant wheat in rows
and barley in its proper place[a]
and spelt as the border?
26 For they are well instructed;
their God teaches them.
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- 28.25 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Corinthians 9:23
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23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I might become a partner in it.
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Luke 10:2
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2 He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.(A)
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Matthew 20:1
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The Laborers in the Vineyard
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.(A)
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Matthew 9:37-38
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37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;(A) 38 therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
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