It is the hard-working farmer who 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.

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 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.

“ Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.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 us kill him and have his inheritance.’And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”They said to him,“ He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?For it is written in the Law of Moses,“ You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

Do you not say,‘ There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.For here the saying holds true,‘ One sows and another reaps.’I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

And he said to them,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

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

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.

Then he said to his disciples,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”