2 Thessalonians 3:8

Paul did not eat anyone's food for free but worked hard night and day so as not to burden the church. He paid his own way as an example of industrious love.

Cross-references · 10

• Matt 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
• 1 Th 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• Eph 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
• Acts 18:3and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
• 1 Th 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
• 1 Cor 4:12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
• 2 Th 3:12We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
• Prov 31:27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
• 2 Cor 11:9And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
• Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.

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