Thematic Bible: Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28
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Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Self-support
And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
You yourselves know that these hands served [to meet] my needs and [the needs of] those who were with me.
nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, [we were] working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you,
So he stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and welcomed all who came to him,
But I have not made use of any of these [rights]. And I am not writing these [things] in order that it may be thus with me. For [it would be] better to me rather to die than [for] anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting.
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Thorn
even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.
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