2 Thessalonians 3:8

A Conservative Version

nor did we eat bread gratis from any man, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Cross References

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

Acts 18:3

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and was working, for they were of the tentmakers craft.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

Ephesians 4:28

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

1 Corinthians 4:12

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

Acts 20:34

Ye yourselves know that these hands served my needs, and to those who were with me.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

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 did not demand the bread of the governor, because the bon

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness.

2 Kings 6:2

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