2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.
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Matthew 6:11give us this day our daily bread;
Acts 20:34Ye yourselves know, that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those that were with me.
2 Corinthians 11:9and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:12Now such we charge 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 →