2 Thessalonians 3:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
  • Eph 4:28 : 28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
  • 2 Thess 3:12 : 12 and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She `is' watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 `Our appointed bread give us to-day.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

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  • 2 Thess 3:9-13
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    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

    10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

    11for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

    12and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

    13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

  • 1 Thess 2:1-10
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    1For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

    2but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

    3for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

    7But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

    8so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

    9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

    10ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

  • 1 Cor 9:6-7
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    6or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?

    7who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

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    7for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

    8other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;

    9and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

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    11unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

    12and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

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    11If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it' if we your fleshly things do reap?

    12if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

    21providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'

  • 2 Cor 8:4-5
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    4with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

    5and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

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    8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

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    11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

    12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

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    10nor scrip for the way, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staff -- for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.

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    4have we not authority to eat and to drink?

  • Acts 20:33-34
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    33`The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

    34and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

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    9for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • 2 Cor 11:27
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    27in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

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    8not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

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    3in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

    4but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

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    4for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';

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    10night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.