2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
9not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate.
Cross References
Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
Acts 20:34but ye yourselves know that these hands have by labour furnished necessaries for my own wants, and for those who were with me.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:12Now such we command, and conjure, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they labour, 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 →