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:
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Bible References
Eat
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.
Proverbs 31:27
She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat.
Matthew 6:11
Give us today our daily bread,
But
Acts 18:3
And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served [to meet] my needs and [the needs of] those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 4:12
and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;
2 Corinthians 11:9
And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
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Deuteronomy 2:6
You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.
Psalm 104:23
Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the busyness God gives to {humans} to preoccupy them.