2 Thessalonians 3:8
"Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:"
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- Matthew 6:11
"Give us this day our daily bread."
Read in chapter → - 1 Thessalonians 2:9
"For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God."
Read in chapter → - Acts 18:3
"And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 4:28
"Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."
Read in chapter → - 1 Thessalonians 4:11
"And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 4:12
"And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:27
"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."
Read in chapter → - 2 Thessalonians 3:12
"Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 11:9
"And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself."
Read in chapter → - Acts 20:34
"Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me."
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