Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible










However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another. To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.

You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you; I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow. read more.
For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."


I have never coveted any man's silver or gold or clothes. You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions.

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship



You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Remedies ForIndustryActing For Oneselfprovidingministering

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

So Paul for two whole years lived in a rented house of his own; he continued to welcome everybody who came to see him; Verse ConceptsTwo YearsWelcoming Other PeoplePaying For Goods

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting. Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting


I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship



You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Remedies ForIndustryActing For Oneselfprovidingministering

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

So Paul for two whole years lived in a rented house of his own; he continued to welcome everybody who came to see him; Verse ConceptsTwo YearsWelcoming Other PeoplePaying For Goods

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting. Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting



You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Remedies ForIndustryActing For Oneselfprovidingministering

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

So Paul for two whole years lived in a rented house of his own; he continued to welcome everybody who came to see him; Verse ConceptsTwo YearsWelcoming Other PeoplePaying For Goods

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting. Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfSelfishness, Shown InPleasing MenAdaptability

It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit. Verse ConceptsCreditAbounding, Good ThingsFruitful LabourBeing ContentGifts And Talentsaccounting

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

What difference then does it make? In one way or another, whether in pretense or in sincerity, Christ is being preached, and that is the thing that makes me glad; yes, more too, I will continue to be glad of it, Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmPreaching ChristRejoicing In God's WordSpreading The GospelMotivationFake Friendspreachingweathermotivesimportance