Acts 20:34
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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- Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
- Acts 19:22 : 22 So he sent into Medonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
- 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
- 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
- 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
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14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
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18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
20 And how I kept bk nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
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8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
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35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man cording as he had need.
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16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
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28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
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22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
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13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
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25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
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10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
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13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
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12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
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35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
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28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
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20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
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24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the gre of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone prehing the kingdom of God, shall see my fe no more.
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13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
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2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
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15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
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5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
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13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
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27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
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12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.