Give us this day our daily bread.

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.

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. {to give: or, to distribute}

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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}.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for {it were} better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain {persons is} void of understanding.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

What is my reward then? {Verily} that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

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

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}.

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, {that is}, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. {He...: Heb. The soul of him that} {craveth...: Heb. boweth unto him}

If others be partakers of {this} power over you, {are} not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

And he said unto him, Went not mine heart {with thee}, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? {Is it} a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

But {this cometh to pass}, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about {him}; and {they were} full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. {rest...: Gr. have no rest}