2 Thessalonians 3:9

World English Bible (2000)

not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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  • 1 Cor 9:4-9 : 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink? 5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? 7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk? 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares, 10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 12 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. 13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? 14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
  • 2 Thess 3:7 : 7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
  • Matt 10:10 : 10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

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    7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

    8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

  • 2 Thess 3:10-13
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    10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

    11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

    12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

    13 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.

  • 1 Thess 2:8-10
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    8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

    9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

    10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

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    4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

    5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

    6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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    4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

    5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

    6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

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    11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

    12 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

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    17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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    20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

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    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

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    24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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    12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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    7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

    9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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    4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

    5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

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    12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

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    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

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    5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

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    16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

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    9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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    11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

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    4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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    13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

    14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,