2Thess.3.8

2 Thessalonians 3:8

KJV

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:

A Warning against Idleness

Exhortation

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:18

KJV

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Nehemiah’s Generosity

Acts 18:3

KJV

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Paul Ministers in Corinth

Paul at Corinth

1 Corinthians 9:4

KJV

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

The Rights of an Apostle

Paul’s Use of Liberty

2 Corinthians 11:27

KJV

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Paul’s Suffering and Service

Paul Defends His Apostleship

Ephesians 4:28

KJV

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

New Life in Christ

1 Thessalonians 2:9

KJV

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.