2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
Darby Translation
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In Context
7For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;
Cross References
2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, to the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he said, Go.
Matthew 6:11give us to-day our needed bread,
Acts 20:34Yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my wants, and to those who were with me.
2 Corinthians 11:9And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:12Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they 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 →