2 Thessalonians 3:8

Tree of Life Version

And we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but worked night and day with labor and hardship, so as not to burden any of you.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:2

So please, let’s go to the Jordan and pick from there each one a beam, and make ourselves a place there to live.” “Go,” he answered.

Nehemiah 5:18

Now, each day one ox and six choice sheep, as well as some fowl, were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundance of every kind of wine was prepared. Despite all this, I did not require the governor’s food allowance, because the work was already heavy on this people.

Proverbs 31:27

She watches over the affairs 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 began working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own needs as well as for those with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

We toil, working with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless. When we are persecuted, we endure.

1 Corinthians 9:4

Don’t we have the right to food and drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 11:9

When I was present with you and I was in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and I will continue to do so.

Ephesians 4:28

The one who steals must steal no longer—instead he must work, doing something useful with his own hands, so he may have something to share with the one who has need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship—working night and day, so as not to burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the Good News of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, just as we directed you—

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Messiah Yeshua to work in a quiet demeanor, so they may eat their own bread.