¹⁰ Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

⁶ It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

²³ Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,

²⁴ But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

²² And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

⁷ But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

⁸ Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

³⁵ You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

³⁶ He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

³⁷ In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

³⁸ I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

⁹ For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

¹⁵ For we go through all things on account of you, because the greater the number to whom the grace is given, the greater is the praise to the glory of God.