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 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• Eph 4:28Let 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.
• Acts 18:3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
• 1 Th 4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 1 Cor 4:12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
• 2 Th 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
• Prov 31:27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
• 2 Cor 11:9And 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.
• Acts 20:34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

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