1 Thessalonians 2:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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.

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for their craft was to make tentes)
  • 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 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 For ye your selues knowe howe ye ought to folowe vs: For we behaued not our selues inordinately among you, 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.
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therfore we both labour, and suffer rebuke, because we haue hoped in the lyuyng God, whiche is the sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleue.
  • 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 And she that is a wydowe in deede, and left alone, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers nyght and day.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thanke God whom I worshippe from my forefathers in pure conscience, that without ceassyng I haue remembrauce of thee in my prayers night & day
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 Accordyng to the Gospell of glorie of the blessed God, whiche is committed vnto me.
  • 2 Cor 12:13-14 : 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. 14 Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren.
  • Phil 4:16 : 16 For euen in Thessalonica, ye sent once, & afterward agayne vnto my necessitie.
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Without ceassyng, callyng to remembraunce the worke of your fayth, and labour of loue, and patient abidyng in the hope of our Lorde Iesus Christe, in the syght of God and our father.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 But euen after that we had suffred before, and were shamefully entreated as ye knowe, at Philippos, we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospell of God, in much stryuyng.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others:
  • 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 Praying nyght and daye exceedyngly to see you personally, and repayre the wantynges of your fayth?
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God.
  • Neh 5:18 : 18 And there was prepared for me dayly an oxe and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me: and euer once in ten dayes wine for all in aboundance: Yet required not I the liuing of a captayne, for the bondage was greeuous vnto the people.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 A song, the psalme of the sonnes of Corach, to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth, a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite. O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee:
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 O who wyll geue my head water inough, and a wel of teares for mine eyes, that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people?
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 And she had ben a wydowe about fourescore and foure yeres, whiche departed not from the temple, but serued God with fastynges and prayers nyght and day.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God auenge his elect, which crye day and nyght vnto hym? yea, though he deferre them,
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therfore watch, and remember that by the space of three yeres I ceassed not to warne euery one night and day with teares.
  • 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.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul the seruaunt of Iesus Christe, called to be an Apostle, seuered into the Gospel of God.
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 That I should be the minister of Iesus Christe, to the gentiles, and shoulde minister the Gospell of God, that the offeryng of the gentiles might be acceptable, and sanctified by the holy ghost.
  • Rom 15:19 : 19 In myghtie signes and wonders, by the power of the spirite of God: so that from Hierusalem, & the coastes rounde about, vnto Illyricum, I haue fullye preached the Gospell of Christe.
  • 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 Cor 9:6-7 : 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?
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.
  • 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 In stripes, in prisonmentes, in strifes, in labours,

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    9Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

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