2 Thessalonians 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

Eat

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Proverbs 31:27

Matthew 6:11

But

1 Thessalonians 4:11

General references

Deuteronomy 2:6

Psalm 104:23

Ecclesiastes 3:10

Bible References

Eat

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

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

Our needful bread, give us, this day;

But

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

Man goeth forth to his work, And to his labour, until evening.

I looked at the employment which God hath given to the sons of men, to work therein: