neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
Parallel translations
- KJV 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:
- BSB nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
- NKJV nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
- NASB nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;
- NLT We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so we would not be a burden to any of you.
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Cross-references · 10
- Matt 6:11Give us today our daily bread.
- 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
- Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
- Acts 18:3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
- 1 Th 4:11and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
- 1 Cor 4:12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
- Prov 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
- 2 Th 3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
- 2 Cor 11:9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
- Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
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