Thematic Bible: Self-support


Thematic Bible





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