2 Thessalonians 3:8

Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who did not walk wickedly among you.

9It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:11Give us our needful bread, this day:

Acts 20:34And ye yourselves, know, that these hands ministered to my wants, and to them that were with me.

2 Corinthians 11:9And when I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:12Now such persons, we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that in 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 →

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