I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Master Yahshua, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but bear all things, lest we should hinder the good news of the Messiah.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the opportunity from them which desire an opportunity; that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
For ye know the grace of our Master Yahshua the Messiah, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.