You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
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. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
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 having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
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