1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.
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10Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.
Psalms 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah.
Proverbs 31:18She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out by night.
Luke 2:37and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.
Acts 18:3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and was working, for they were of the tentmakers craft.
Acts 20:31Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:8-13
The Primitive Ministers. ( a. d. 51.) 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and… Read the whole commentary →