1 Thessalonians 2:9

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁸ so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. ⁹ Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Day and Night

Good News

Gospel of God

Night and Day

Preached the Gospel

Preaching the Gospel

No

Acts 18:3

And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought: their craft was to make tents.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was present with you and had need, I was grievous to no man. For that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I kept myself that I should not be grievous to you: and so will I keep myself.

Nehemiah 5:15

For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:18

And there was prepared me daily an ox, and six chosen sheep, and birds, and once in every ten days a great sum of wine. Yet required not I the living of a captain for the bondage was grievous unto the people.

Psalm 32:4

For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

Psalm 88:1

{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah, to the Chanter upon Mahalath, to give thanks, an Instruction of Heman the Ezrahite} O LORD God my Savior, I have cried day and night before thee;

Jeremiah 9:1

O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people?

Luke 2:37

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them:

Acts 20:24

But none of those things move me. Neither is my life dear unto myself; that I might fulfill my course with joy, and the ministration which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 20:31

Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.

Acts 20:34-35

Ye know well that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

Romans 1:1

Paul, the servant of Jesus Christ, called unto the office to be an apostle, put apart to preach the Gospel of God,

Romans 15:16

for this purpose: that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ among the gentiles, and should minister the glad tidings of God, that the gentiles might be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the holy ghost.

Romans 15:19

in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem and the coasts round about, unto Illyricum, I have filled all countries with glad tidings of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:12

and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things. Neither wrote I these things that it should be so done unto me. For it were better for me to die than any man should take this rejoicing from me.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospel, I make the gospel of Christ free, that I misuse not mine authority in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in stripes, in prisonment, in strife, in labour, in watching, in fasting,

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

For what is it wherein ye were inferiors unto other congregations? Except it be therein that I was not grievous unto you. Forgive me this wrong done unto you.

Philippians 4:16

For when I was in Thessalonica, ye sent once, and afterward again, unto my needs:

1 Thessalonians 1:3

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi - as ye well know - then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor yet of any other, when we might have been chargeable, as the apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfill that which is lacking in your faith.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

Ye yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: For we behaved not ourselves inordinately among you.

1 Timothy 1:11

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which gospel is committed unto me.

1 Timothy 4:10

For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.

1 Timothy 5:5

She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day:

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I serve from mine elders with pure conscience, that without ceasing I make mention of thee in my prayers night and day,