And why are ye anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin;

Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and I say to you, even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed as one of these!

and we toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

"I know your works and your toil, and your patience, and that you cannot bear evil men; and you tried those who call themselves apostles, and are not, and found them false;