Thematic Bible: Self-support
Thematic Bible
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Self-support
and, because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they labored; for by occupation they were tent-makers.
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.
Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;
And he remained two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and was wont to welcome all who came to him;
But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.
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