Acts 18:3

3and abecause he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

Acts 20:34-35

34 bYou yourselves know that cthese hands ministered to my necessities and dto those who were with me. 35In all things eI have shown you that fby working hard in this way we must ghelp the weak and hremember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed ito give than to receive.’

1 Corinthians 4:12

12and we jlabor, working with our own hands. kWhen reviled, we bless; lwhen persecuted, we endure;

1 Corinthians 9:6

6Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

1 Corinthians 9:15

15But mI have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone ndeprive me of my ground for boasting.

2 Corinthians 6:5

5 obeatings, imprisonments, priots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

1 Thessalonians 1:3

3remembering before qour God and Father ryour work of faith and labor of slove and tsteadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

7For you yourselves know uhow you ought to imitate us, because vwe were not idle when we were with you, 8nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but wwith toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9It was xnot because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves yan example to imitate.
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