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2 Thessalonians 3:8
And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

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1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

Acts 20:33
I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

Acts 20:34
You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

Acts 20:31
So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

Acts 28:30
And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,

Matthew 10:8
Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.

John 21:3
Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They said to him, And we will come with you. They went out and got into the boat; but that night they took no fish.

2 Kings 6:2
So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.

Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

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2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,

2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

2 Thessalonians 3:11
For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

1 Thessalonians 4:12
That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

Proverbs 31:27
She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

Romans 12:17
Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

Titus 3:14
And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.

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1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;

1 Corinthians 4:12
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

2 Corinthians 11:27
In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

2 Corinthians 6:5
In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

1 Timothy 4:10
And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

2 Corinthians 5:9
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Revelation 2:3
And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

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1 Corinthians 9:6
Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

1 Corinthians 9:8
Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

1 Corinthians 9:9
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

1 Corinthians 9:10
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to take food and drink?

Galatians 6:6
But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

1 Timothy 5:18
For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.

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2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

2 Corinthians 11:8
I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;

2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

2 Corinthians 11:10
As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

2 Corinthians 12:14
This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

2 Corinthians 12:16
But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

2 Corinthians 12:18
I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?

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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

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John 15:25
This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

Galatians 2:21
I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

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Philippians 4:15
And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

Philippians 4:16
Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

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1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

2 Timothy 1:3
I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

Revelation 4:8
And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.

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Luke 11:3
Give us every day bread for our needs.

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Acts 20:7
And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

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Acts 20:11
And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

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2 Corinthians 2:5
But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

2 Corinthians 2:9
And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.

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