2 Thessalonians 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live.” He answered, “Do so.”

Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and every ten days skins of wine in abundance, yet with all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because of the heavy burden of labor on the 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 today our daily bread.

Acts 18:3

and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

1 Corinthians 9:4

Do we not have the right to our food and drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for my needs were supplied by the brothers who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will continue to refrain from burdening you in any way.

Ephesians 4:28

Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.