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:

Bible References

Eat

2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those that are such, we charge and exhort in our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their bread.
Proverbs 31:27
Tzaddi She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat bread in idleness.
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.

But

Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and worked, for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts 20:34
Moreover, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to those that were with me.
1 Corinthians 4:12
and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,

General references

Deuteronomy 2:6
Ye shall buy food from them for money that ye may eat, and ye shall also buy water from them for money that ye may drink.
Psalm 104:23
Man goes forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men that they may be occupied in it.