2 Thessalonians 3:8

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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:

but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.

give us this day our daily bread:

and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.

you yourselves know, that these hands did minister to my necessities, and those along with me.

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

for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;