2 Thessalonians 3:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labour and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and struggle we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden or impose on any of you [for our support].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

Common English Bible

⁸ We didn’t eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, we worked night and day with effort and hard work so that we would not impose on you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11:9

and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.