2 Thessalonians 3:8

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

nor did we eat bread from anyone as a gift, but by labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Please let us go to the Jordan, and we each man shall take a beam from there, and we shall make for ourselves a place there, to live there. And he said, Go.

Nehemiah 5:18

And that which was prepared for me for a day was one ox, six fat sheep. Also birds were prepared for me; and between ten days, in all of the wine plentifully. And with this I did not seek the bread of the governor, for the bondage was heavy on this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She watches the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Matthew 6:11

Give us today our daily bread,

Acts 18:3

And because of his being of the same trade, he lived and worked with them; for they were tentmakers by trade.

Acts 20:34

But you yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs, and to the ones who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and we labor, working with our own hands. Being cursed, we bless; persecuted, we bear;

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not authority to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in hardship and toil, in sleepless nights many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And being present with you and lacking, I was not a burden to anyone. The brothers coming from Macedonia completely made up for my need. And in every way I kept myself without burden to you, and I will keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

The one stealing, let him steal no more, but rather let him labor, working what is good with the hands, that he may have something to give to the one that has need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil, night and day, working in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And eagerly aspiring to be quiet, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, as we enjoined you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

And we command to such ones, and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they may eat their own bread.