1 Thessalonians 2:9

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁸ Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us. ⁹ For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

Day and Night

Good News

Gospel of God

Night and Day

Preached the Gospel

Preaching the Gospel

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Acts 18:3

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.

2 Corinthians 11:9

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.

Nehemiah 5:15

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.

Nehemiah 5:18

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

Psalm 32:4

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Psalm 88:1

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Jeremiah 9:1

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

Luke 2:37

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

Luke 18:7

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

Acts 20:24

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.

Acts 20:31

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

Acts 20:34-35

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

Romans 1:1

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

Romans 15:16

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.

Romans 15:19

By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

1 Corinthians 4:12

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;

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

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

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

2 Corinthians 6:5

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

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

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.

Philippians 4:16

Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

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;

1 Thessalonians 2:2

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.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

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.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

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

1 Timothy 1:11

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

1 Timothy 4:10

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.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

2 Timothy 1:3

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day