2 Thessalonians 3:8

King James Version - American Edition

neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought 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 thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

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 upon this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth 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 abode with them, and wrought: (for by their occupation they were tentmakers.)

Acts 20:34

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto 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 brethren which came from Macedo´nia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto 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 needeth.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

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

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that ye 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.