Act 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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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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:
So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
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.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. {She...: Heb. She spreadeth}
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.
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
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:
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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}
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.
For some {of them} thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy {those things} that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
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.
And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
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?
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
But in all {things} approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {approving: Gr. commending}
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.