1 Thessalonians 2:9

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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

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

Chargeable

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and'so will I keep myself .

For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

The gospel

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

General references

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.