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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
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Maintain good works
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Titus 3:8
This saying is true, and in respect to these things, I will that you affirm strongly, in order that those who have believed in God may be careful to practice good works: these are the things that are honorable and profitable for men.
Maintain good works
Acts 18:3
and because he was of the same trade, he made his home with them, and worked: for by trade they were tent-makers.
Acts 20:35
In all things I have taught you by ex ample, that by thus laboring, you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus; for he himself said, It is more blessed to give, than to receive.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat any one's bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you;