2 Thessalonians 3:8

Modern English Version

neither did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but we worked tirelessly and toiled night and day that we might not be a burden to any of you.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go to the Jordan and take from there one beam per man, and let us make for ourselves a place to live there.” And Elisha said, “Go.”

Nehemiah 5:18

Daily there were one ox and six choice sheep prepared for me. Fowls were also prepared for me. Once in ten days all sorts of wine were supplied in abundance. Yet for all this, I never required the governor’s food allotment because it was a heavy burden on this people.

Proverbs 31:27

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

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

Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities and for those who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

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 to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in weariness and painfulness, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11:9

Furthermore, when I was present with you and was lacking, I was a burden to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked. In all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who steals steal no more. Instead, let him labor, working with his hands things which are good, that he may have something to share with him who is in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil. Laboring night and day so as not to be an expense to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now, concerning those who are such, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that they quietly work and eat their own bread.