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2 Timothy 2:6

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The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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Verse 6. The husbandman who laboureth [3] must first partake. Both the Latin and Greek texts admit of two interpretations: the sense may either be, that it is fitting the husbandman partake first and before others of the fruits of his labours, or that he must first labour and then partake. Witham.

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