nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
Give us this day our daily bread,
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
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