Philippians 4:17

"And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. maintain...: or, profess honest trades"

"For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister."

"Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

"Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; which...: or, as much as in you is"

"For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;"

"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

"Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. whereof...: or, which hath been so much spoken of before"