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

Them that are such, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness, and eat their own bread.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not her bread with idleness.

Give us this day our daily bread.

But

And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought: their craft was to make tents.

Ye know well that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.

And when I was present with you and had need, I was grievous to no man. For that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I kept myself that I should not be grievous to you: and so will I keep myself.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

General references

Ye shall buy meat of them, for money, to eat; and ye shall buy water of them, for money, to drink.

Then goeth forth man to his work, and to till his land until the evening.

For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it.