Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live.” He answered, “Do so.”
2 Thessalonians 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version and we did not eat anyone's bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and struggle we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden or impose on any of you [for our support]. American Standard Version (1901) neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: Common English Bible We didn’t eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, we worked night and day with effort and hard work so that we would not impose on you. Catholic Public Domain Version Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. |
Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live.” He answered, “Do so.”
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls 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 of the heavy burden of labor on the people.
She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers.
You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions.
and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.
And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for my needs were supplied by the friends who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will continue to refrain from burdening you in any way.
Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.
You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.