nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone whil
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.