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

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

She viewed the goings of her house, and the bread of sloth she will not eat

Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance.

But

And because being of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought: for they were by trade tentmakers.

And ye yourselves know, that to my necessities, and to those being with me, these hands served.

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

General references

Ye shall buy food from them for silver, and ye ate: and also shall ye buy water from them for silver, and ye drank

Man will go forth to his work, and to his labor even to evening.

I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it