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 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.
• 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.
• Prov 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
• 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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