The farmer who works hard ought to have the first 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 hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

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

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

“ Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.Finally he sent his son to them, saying,‘ They will respect my son.’But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘ This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”They said to him,“ He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?For it is written in the law of Moses,“ Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

Don’t you say,‘ There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.For in this instance the saying is true,‘ One sows and another reaps.’I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

He said to them,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask 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.

I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

Then he said to his disciples,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”