2 Thessalonians 3:9 Cross References - Riverside

⁹ Not that we have not the authority, but in order to give you ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

¹⁰ no bag for the road, nor two tunics nor shoes nor stick, for the workman has a right to his food.

¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you.

⁴ Have we not the right to eat and drink? ⁵ Have we not the right to take about with us a sister as wife, as the rest of the apostles do and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ⁶ Or am I only, and Barnabas, without the right not to do manual labor? ⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier and supplies his own pay and rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who keeps a flock and does not drink any of the milk of the flock? ⁸ Am I saying these things from a man's point of view or does not the Law also say them? ⁹ For in the Law of Moses it is written, "You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain." Is God thinking of the oxen? ¹⁰ or does he say this wholly for our sakes? For our sakes; for it was written because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher ought to thresh in hope of having a share. ¹¹ If we sowed for you things of the spirit, is it a great matter if we reap your things of the flesh? ¹² If others share this right over you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right. No, we endure all things in order not to cause any hindrance to the good news of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who do the work of the Temple eat the things that come from the Temple, and those who minister at the altar share with the altar? ¹⁴ So the Lord has directed that those who proclaim the good news shall have their living from the good news.

⁶ Let him who is taught the message share with his teacher in all good things.

⁶ nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or others, although we could have claimed the dignity of Christ's apostles.

⁷ For you yourselves know that you should imitate us, for we were not disorderly when among you,

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps.