Acts 20:34

Webster's Bible (1833)

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
  • Acts 19:22 : 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 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 Gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 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; 9 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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