2 Thessalonians 3:8
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;
9Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:2Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.
Matthew 6:11Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.
Acts 20:34You yourselves know: for such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.
2 Corinthians 11:9And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:12Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would 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 →