Thematic Bible: Self-support
Thematic Bible
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Self-support
and, because they followed the same trade of tentmaking, he stayed with them and went to work [for them].
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For you brothers remember how we labored and toiled, working hard night and day, so that we would not burden any of you [while] we proclaimed to you the Gospel of God.
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You [also] know that I worked with my own hands to provide not only my own needs, but the needs of those who were with me.
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neither did we eat anyone's food without paying for it. But by hard labor and toil, we worked night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you.
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Then Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house and welcomed everyone who visited him.
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But I have not availed myself of any of these rights. And I am not writing this so that it would be done in my case, for I would rather die than have anyone make my boast [i.e., of preaching without financial support] an empty one.
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