1 Thessalonians 2:9

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Thessalonica

⁸ Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us. ⁹ You remember, brothers, our hard labor and toil. We kept up our habit of working night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you when we preached to you. ¹⁰ You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

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 as they all had the same trade, they proceeded to work together.

2 Corinthians 11:9

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

Luke 2:37

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

Luke 18:7

And will not God give justice and protection to His chosen people who continue to cry to Him day and night, since He is so patient with them?

Acts 20:24

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

Acts 20:31

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

Acts 20:34-35

You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,

Romans 15:16

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So I have completed the telling of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

1 Corinthians 4:12

We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

1 Corinthians 9:18

Then what is the pay that I am getting? To be able to preach the good news without expense to anybody, and so never to make full use of my rights in preaching the good news.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the rest of the churches, except for the fact that I, and I only, never received from you any financial support? Please forgive me this wrong.

Philippians 4:16

Even while I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

We never sought praise from men, either from you or from anyone else; although as apostles we could have stood on our official dignity.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

as night and day I continue to pray with deepest earnestness and keenest eagerness that I may see your faces and round out to completeness what is lacking in your faith?

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you;

1 Timothy 1:11

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

1 Timothy 4:10

To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 5:5

But a woman who is really a widow and lives alone has fixed her hope on God, and night and day devotes herself to prayers and entreaties,

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I worship, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as I ceaselessly remember you in my prayers. Because I remember the tears you shed for me, I am always longing night and day