2 Thessalonians 3:8

Nor, as a free-gift, did eat, bread, from anyone, but, with toil and hardship, night and day, working, - that we might not burden any of you; -

Acts 18:3

and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for they were tent-makers by their trade.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our toil and hardship: night and day, working, so as not to be a burden unto any of you, we proclaimed unto you the glad-message of God,

Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the goings of her household, and, the bread of idleness, will she not eat.

Matthew 6:11

Our needful bread, give us, this day;

Acts 20:34

yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!

1 Corinthians 4:12

And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,

2 Corinthians 11:9

And, being present with you, and having come short, I was not burdensome to anyone, - for, my deficiency, the brethren, coming from Macedonia, helped to make up; - and, in everything, without burden unto you, I kept, myself - and will keep!

Ephesians 4:28

Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, - working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have wherewith to be giving away to him that hath need;

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, - even as, unto you, we gave charge -

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, - that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.

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Summary

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

Bible References

Eat

2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, - that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.
Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the goings of her household, and, the bread of idleness, will she not eat.
Matthew 6:11
Our needful bread, give us, this day;

But

Acts 18:3
and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for they were tent-makers by their trade.
Acts 20:34
yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!
1 Corinthians 4:12
And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,
2 Corinthians 11:9
And, being present with you, and having come short, I was not burdensome to anyone, - for, my deficiency, the brethren, coming from Macedonia, helped to make up; - and, in everything, without burden unto you, I kept, myself - and will keep!
1 Thessalonians 4:11
And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, - even as, unto you, we gave charge -

General references

Deuteronomy 2:6
Food, shall ye buy of them with silver so shall ye eat, - yea even water, shall ye buy of them with silver so shall ye drink.
Psalm 104:23
Man goeth forth to his work, And to his labour, until evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I looked at the employment which God hath given to the sons of men, to work therein: