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

Unceasingly, remembering - your work of faith and labour of love and endurance of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father:

and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for they were tent-makers by their trade.

yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!

And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,

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

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings,

For, ye yourselves, know, how needful it is to be imitating us, in that we were not disorderly among you,

For, to this end, are we toiling and contending, because we have set our hope on a Living God, Who is Saviour of all men - specially, of such as believe.

Chargeable

Nor, of men, seeking glory - either from you, or from others, though we could have assumed, dignity, as Apostles of Christ;

whereas, the former pashas, who were before me, suffered themselves to be a burden upon the people, and took from them in bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver, even, their young men, bare rule over the people, - but, I, did not so, because of the fear of God.

Who serveth as a soldier, at his own charges, at any time? Who planteth a vineyard, - and, the fruit thereof, doth not eat? Orwho shepherdeth a flock, - and, of the milk of the flock, doth not eat?

And, being present with you, and having come short, I was not burdensome to anyone, - for, my deficiency, the brethren, coming from Macedonia, helped to make up; - and, in everything, without burden unto you, I kept, myself - and will keep!

For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, - save that, I myself, would not allow myself to be a burden unto you? Forgive me this wrong!

The gospel

But, though we had previously suffered, and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the glad-message of God with much conflict.

But, for no cause whatever, am I making my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full witness as to the good news of the favour of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated unto the glad-message of God -

That I should be a public minister of Christ Jesus unto the nations, doing priestly service with the glad-message of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might prove to be acceptable, being hallowed in Holy Spirit:

According to the glad-message of the glory of the happy God, with which entrusted am, I.

General references

I looked at the employment which God hath given to the sons of men, to work therein: