Partaking of the Fruit
2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.


A young man came to a man of ninety years of age, and said to him, "How have you made out to live so long and be so well?" The old man took the youngster to an orchard, and; pointing to some large trees full of apples, said, "I planted these trees when I was a boy, and do you wonder that now I am permitted to gather the fruit of them?" We gather in old age what we plant in our youth. Sow to the wind, end we reap the whirlwind. Plant in early life the right kind of a Christian character, and you will eat luscious fruit in old age, and gather these harvest apples in eternity.



Parallel Verses
KJV: The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

WEB: The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.




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