Acts 18:3

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Since they were of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them, for they were tentmakers by trade.

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  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 We did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it. Instead, we worked with toil and hardship night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you. 9 It was not that we lack the right to receive support, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and those of my companions. 35 In all this, I have shown you that by working hard in this way, we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
  • 1 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who lack the right to not work for a living? 7 Who serves as a soldier at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock? 8 Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses: "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen that God is concerned about? 10 Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you? 12 If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:7 : 7 Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in what way were you less favored than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

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