2 Thessalonians 3:8

Weymouth NT

nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

Cross References

Matthew 6:11

give us to-day our bread for the day;

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade –that of tent-maker– he lodged with them and worked with them.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12

Homes we have none. Wearily we toil, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we bear it patiently;

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not a right to claim food and drink?

2 Corinthians 11:27

with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was no one to whom I became a burden –for the brethren when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants– and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you, and will do so still.

Ephesians 4:28

He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that he may have something of which he can give the needy a share.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:

2 Thessalonians 3:12

To persons of that sort our injunction –and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ– is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.