2 Thessalonians 3:8

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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.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go as far as the Jordan, and let us each take from the forest a piece of timber, so that we may build for ourselves a place to live there." And he said, "Go."

Nehemiah 5:18

Now there was prepared for me, on each day, one ox and six choice rams, along with poultry. And once every ten days, I distributed diverse wines and many other things. Yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor. For the people were greatly impoverished.

Proverbs 31:27

She has considered the paths of her household, and she has not eaten her bread in idleness.

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our life-sustaining bread.

Acts 18:3

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

Acts 20:34

as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided.

1 Corinthians 4:12

And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.

1 Corinthians 9:4

Do we not have the authority to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

with hardships and difficulties, with much vigilance, in hunger and thirst, with frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness,

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

Ephesians 4:28

Whoever was stealing, let him now not steal, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, doing what is good, so that he may have something to distribute to those who suffer need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now we charge those who act in this way, and we beg them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work in silence and eat their own bread.