Verse 3

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for their craft was to make tentes)

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God.
• 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.
• Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Yea, ye your selues knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 I haue shewed you all thinges, howe that so labouryng ye ought to receaue the weake, and to remember ye wordes of the Lorde Iesu, howe that he said, it is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.
• 1 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 Either only I and Barnabas haue not power this to do? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne cost? Who planteth a vineyarde, and eateth not of the fruite therof? Or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke? 8 Say I these thinges after the maner of men? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moyses: Thou shalt not moosell the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take care for Oxen? 10 Either sayth he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt this is written, that he which eareth, should eare in hope: & that he which tressheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope. 11 If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges? 12 If others be partakers of this power wherfore are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all thinges, lest we shoulde hinder the Gospel of Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:7 : 7 Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely?
• 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.
• 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.