2 Thessalonians 3:8

Nor, as a free-gift, did eat, bread, from anyone, but, with toil and hardship, night and day, working,—that we might not burden any of you;—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 yourselves, know, how needful it is to be imitating us, in that we were not disorderly among you,

9Not because we have not authority, but that, ourselves, as an ensample, we might hold forth unto you,—to the end ye might he imitating us.

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, as far as the Jordan, and fetch from thence every man a single beam, and let us make us a place wherein we may sit. And he said—Go ye.

Matthew 6:11Our needful bread, give us, this day;

Acts 20:34yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!

2 Corinthians 11:9And, being present with you, and having come short, I was not burdensome to anyone,—for, my deficiency, the brethren, coming from Macedonia, helped to make up;—and, in everything, without burden unto you, I kept, myself—and will keep!

1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our toil and hardship: night and day, working, so as not to be a burden unto any of you, we proclaimed unto you the glad-message of God,

2 Thessalonians 3:12Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ,—that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.

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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