2 Thessalonians 3:8 Cross References - Riverside

⁸ nor did we eat bread with any one without paying, but with labor and toil night and day we worked in order not to burden any one of you.

¹¹ Our bread for the coming day Give us to-day;

³ and because he was of the same trade stayed with them and they worked together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands provided for my needs and the needs of my companions.

¹² and labor, working with our own hands. When abused we bless, when persecuted we endure it,

⁹ and when I was with you and in need I was not a burden to any one, for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In every way I kept myself from being a burden to you, and shall keep myself so.

²⁸ He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, working with his own hands something good, so as to have something to share with any one in need.

⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor as we worked night and day so as not to burden any one of you while we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

¹¹ and to be ambitious to lead a quiet life and to mind each his own business and to work with your hands, as we instructed you.

¹² Such we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and eat their own bread.