2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread for nought at any man`s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:
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7For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
Cross References
2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
Acts 20:34Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
2 Corinthians 11:9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, 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 →