1 Thessalonians 2:9
Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.
Acts 18:3
and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.)
2 Corinthians 11:9
even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.
Luke 2:37
and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.
Luke 18:7
And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?
Acts 20:24
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:31
So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.
Acts 20:34-35
you know yourselves how these hands of mine provided everything for my own needs and for my companions.
Romans 1:1
PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
Romans 15:16
as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.
Romans 15:19
by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ ??20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,
1 Corinthians 4:12
we work hard for our living; when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we put up with it;
1 Corinthians 9:6-7
What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?
1 Corinthians 9:15
Only, I have not availed myself of any of these rights, and I am not writing in order to secure any such provision for myself. I would die sooner than let anyone deprive me of this, my source of pride.
1 Corinthians 9:18
And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
2 Corinthians 6:5
by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;
2 Corinthians 12:13-14
Where were you inferior to the rest of the churches? ??unless in this, that your apostle did not choose to make himself a burden to you. Pray pardon me this terrible wrong!
Philippians 4:16
even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight;
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For you know quite well how to copy us; we did not loaf in your midst,
1 Timothy 1:11
as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
1 Timothy 4:10
that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.
1 Timothy 5:5
The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;
2 Timothy 1:3
I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.