Acts 18:3

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And, since their trade was the same as his, he stayed and worked with them--their trade was tent-making.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:12

We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,

1 Corinthians 9:14

So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:15

I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die-Nobody shall make my boast a vain one!

1 Corinthians 9:18

What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.

2 Corinthians 11:7

Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted--I mean because I told you God's Good News without payment.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our Brothers, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.

2 Corinthians 12:13

In what respect, I ask, were you treated worse than the other Churches, unless it was that, for my part, I refused to become a burden to you? Forgive me the wrong I thus did you!

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;