Acts 18:3
Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.
1 Corinthians 4:12
Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Acts 20:34-35
"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.
1 Corinthians 9:6-12
Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
2 Corinthians 11:7
Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?
2 Corinthians 11:9
Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
2 Corinthians 12:13
In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.