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

constantly bearing in mind 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 of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men 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

Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

For you yourselves know how you ought to

follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,

For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

Chargeable

nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

The gospel

but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much

opposition.

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus,

called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

General references

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.