2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat any one’s bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

In Context

7For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we did not behave in a disorderly manner among you,

9this we did, not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves to you as an example, in order that you might imitate us.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:11Give us this day the bread for our support.

Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

2 Corinthians 11:9for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself.

1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:12Now we command such, and exhort them by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness, and eat their own bread.

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:7-16

Cautions to the Disorderly. ( a. d. 52.) 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but… Read the whole commentary →

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