The husbandman that laboureth (ton kopiōnta geōrgon). “The toiling tiller of the soil” (geōrgon, from gē and ergō, worker of the earth). See geōrgion (field) in 1Co 3:9 and also 1Co 9:7.
First (prōton). As is natural and right.
To partake (metalambanein). Old word as in Act 2:46 to share in. Paul elsewhere uses metechō as in 1Co 9:12.