2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you:

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

9not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:11give us this day our daily bread:

Acts 20:34you yourselves know, that these hands did minister to my necessities, and those along with me.

2 Corinthians 11:9for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.

1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:12but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must 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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