2 Thessalonians 3:8

English Majority Text Version

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you,

Cross References

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know that these hands rendered service to my needs, and those who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

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

1 Corinthians 9:4

Do we have no right to eat and drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

2 Corinthians 11:9

and when I was present with you, and in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. And in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working that which is good with his hands, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

And to such people we command and urge by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.