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

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

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

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

And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it:

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

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

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

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

Chargeable

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

But the former governors that had been before me laid burdens upon the people, and had taken of them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Who goes to warfare any time at his own expense? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

And when I was present with you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

The gospel

But even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much opposition.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of 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 the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

General references

I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.