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- Prov 31:27 : 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.
- Acts 20:34 : 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
- 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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- 2 Thess 3:9-135 verses88%
9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, {G3754} If any will not work, neither let him eat.
11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.
12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
- 1 Thess 2:1-1010 verses88%
1For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
2but {G2532} having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
3For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority None as apostles of Christ.
7But we were gentle in the midst of you, {G302} as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
8even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: {G1063} working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
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- 2 Cor 11:7-93 verses76%
7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;
9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
- 1 Cor 9:11-122 verses75%
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- Acts 20:33-342 verses72%
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9For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
- 2 Cor 6:3-42 verses71%
3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,