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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 is a trustworthy saying; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for men.
Maintain good works
Acts 18:3
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
Acts 20:35
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.