Thematic Bible: Self-support


Thematic Bible



and because he was of the same trade, he made his home with them, and worked: for by trade they were tent-makers. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofTentsIndustry, Examples OfTentmakingLike Good PeopleStaying Temporarilypartnershipvocation


You yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Remedies ForIndustryActing For Oneselfprovidingministering

nor did we eat any one's bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you; Verse ConceptsdiligenceNightPoverty, Remedies ForLabour Day And NightThose Who ToiledHardship

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all that came to him, Verse ConceptsTwo YearsWelcoming Other PeoplePaying For Goods

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain. Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting