1 Thessalonians 2:9

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁸ so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward 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 trade, he abode with them, and worked; for they were tentmakers by trade.

2 Corinthians 11:9

and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.

Luke 2:37

and she was a widow eightyfour years old, who never left the temple, worshipping with fastings and prayers night and day.

Luke 18:7

And will not God avenge his chosen, who cry to him day and night, though he be slow to punish in their behalf?

Acts 20:24

But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.

Acts 20:34-35

Ye yourselves know, that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those that were with me.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, set apart to preach the gospel of God,

Romans 15:16

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

1 Corinthians 4:12

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

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

Or am I alone and Barnabas bound to labor with our own hands?

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:5

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

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Philippians 4:16

for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my necessity.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and perseverance in the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father;

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but after we had suffered before and had been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may supply that which is lacking in your faith?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you,

1 Timothy 1:11

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

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have placed our hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she that is a widow indeed, and left alone, hath set her hope on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day;

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, as without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,