2 Thessalonians 3:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

Cross References

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

Acts 18:3

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

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.

Ephesians 4:28

He that stole, let him now steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Corinthians 4:12

And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know: for such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

Proverbs 31:27

She hath looked well to the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.

Nehemiah 5:18

And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls: and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things. Yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have not we power to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.