2 Thessalonians 3:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”

Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; fowls likewise 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 the servitude 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 with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and we labor, working with 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, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached 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 charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

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