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
Bible References
Our
1 Thessalonians 1:3
for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 18:3
and as they all had the same trade, they proceeded to work together.
Acts 20:34
You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
2 Corinthians 6:5
in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;
2 Thessalonians 3:7
You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you;
1 Timothy 4:10
To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.
Chargeable
1 Thessalonians 2:6
We never sought praise from men, either from you or from anyone else; although as apostles we could have stood on our official dignity.
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldier ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink any of the milk the flock produces?
2 Corinthians 11:9
and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.
2 Corinthians 12:13
In what respect, then, were you inferior to the rest of the churches, except for the fact that I, and I only, never received from you any financial support? Please forgive me this wrong.
The gospel
1 Thessalonians 2:2
But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.
Acts 20:24
But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.
Romans 1:1
Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,
Romans 15:16
in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.
1 Timothy 1:11
as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.