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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
It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.
Maintain good works
Acts 18:3
and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.)
Acts 20:35
I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"
1 Thessalonians 2:9
Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you.