2 Thessalonians 3:8

American King James Version (1999)

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

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

Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for me daily 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 required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats 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 craft, he stayed with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

Yes, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to them that were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

In weariness and painfulness, 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 wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brothers which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

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