The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

劳力的农夫理当先得粮食。

勤劳的农夫理当先得粮食。

勤劳的农夫理当先得粮食。

辛劳的农夫理当先享受收成。

劳力的农夫理当先尝果实。

劳苦做工的农夫，应该先享受果实。

勞力的農夫理當先得糧食。

勤勞的農夫理當先得糧食。

勤勞的農夫理當先得糧食。

辛勞的農夫理當先享受收成。

勞力的農夫理當先嘗果實。

是勞苦的農夫應該首先享受果實的。

勞苦做工的農夫，應該先享受果實。

勤勞之農必先得穀、

農必先力穡、而後得物產、

勤勞之農、先得物產、宜也、

嘉禾初熟、農夫先嘗其粒者、亦恃平日耕耘之勤耳。

The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.

The farmer who works hard should be the first to receive a share of the crops.

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

And hardworking farmers should be the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

The hard working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

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

The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

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

“ Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.Finally, he sent his son to them.‘ They will respect my son,’ he said.“ But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”“ He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him,“ and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

“ Don’t you say,‘ There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.For in this case the saying is true:‘ One sows and another reaps.’I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

He told them:“ The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

“ For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?When he has leveled its surface, does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, with spelt as their border.His God teaches him order; He instructs him.

Then He said to His disciples,“ The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”