2 Thessalonians 3:8

Modern King James Version

neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Please let us go to Jordan. And let each man take a beam from there. And let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go.

Nehemiah 5:18

And that which was prepared daily was one ox and six choice sheep; and birds were prepared; and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this I did not seek the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to 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 stayed and worked with them; for they were tentmakers by occupation.

Acts 20:34

Yea, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my needs, and to those who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

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

1 Corinthians 9:4

Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

2 Corinthians 11:9

And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will keep myself.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

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

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that you try earnestly 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 we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.