Acts 18:3

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

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.

1 Corinthians 4:12

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

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.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

2 Corinthians 11:7

Or did I commit a sin lowering myself so that ye might be lifted up, because I preached to you the good-news of God freely?

1 Corinthians 9:14

And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

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,

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.