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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Eat
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
Matthew 6:11
Give us today our daily bread.
But
Acts 18:3
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
2 Corinthians 11:9
When I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
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Deuteronomy 2:6
You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'"
Psalm 104:23
Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.