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.

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Chargeable

The gospel

1 Timothy 1:11

Bible References

Our

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--he lodged with them and worked with them.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.

Homes we have none. Wearily we toil, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we bear it patiently;

Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?

by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;

For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,

and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers.

Chargeable

nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.

What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?

And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was no one to whom I became a burden--for the brethren when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants--and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you, and will do so still.

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

The gospel

But, as you will remember, after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition.

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is)

and is not in accordance with the Good News of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.