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

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,

And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

Chargeable

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

The gospel

But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

General references

I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.