Acts 18:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And because he was of the same occupation, he stayed with them; and they worked [together], for they were tentmakers by trade.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Common English Bible

³ Because they practiced the same trade, he stayed and worked with them. They all worked with leather.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought; (now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Acts 18:3 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.

1 Corinthians 4:12

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

1 Corinthians 9:14

Even so did the Lord ordain that they which proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case: for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:7

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

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.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

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;