and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
Acts 18:3 - William Tyndale New Testament And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought (their craft was to make tents.) Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And because he was of the same occupation, he stayed with them; and they worked [together], for they were tentmakers by trade. American Standard Version (1901) and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers. Common English Bible Because they practiced the same trade, he stayed and worked with them. They all worked with leather. Catholic Public Domain Version And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.) Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought; (now they were tentmakers by trade.) |
and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
Even so also did the Lord ordain, that they which preach the gospell, should live of the gospell:
But I have used none of these things. ¶ Neither wrote I these things that it should be so done unto me. It were better for me to die than any man should take this rejoicing from me.
What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospell, I make the gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not mine authority in the gospell.
Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? and because I preached to you the gospel to you free?
And when I was present with you and had need, I was grievous to no man. For that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I kept myself that I should not be grievous to you: and so will I keep myself.
For what is it wherein ye were inferiors unto other congregations? except it be therein that I was not grievous unto you. Forgive me this wrong done unto you.
¶ Ye remember brethren our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached you the gospell of God.
and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you: