1 Thessalonians 2:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Our

Chargeable

2 Corinthians 12:13

The gospel

1 Timothy 1:11

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:10

Bible References

Our

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

You yourselves know that these hands served [to meet] my needs and [the needs of] those who were with me.

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?

in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, that we did not behave irresponsibly among you,

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

Chargeable

nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

The gospel

but [after we] had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called [to be] an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with.

General references

I have seen the busyness God gives to {humans} to preoccupy them.