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1 Thessalonians 2:9

WEB

9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

KJV

9For 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.

BSB

9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

FBV

9Don't you remember, brothers and sisters, all our hard work—working day and night so we wouldn't be a burden to any of you as we shared God's good news with you?

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Extra References

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

7For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, 8neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you. 9This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

2 Corinthians 11:9

9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Acts 18:3

3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

2 Corinthians 12:13-14

13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Acts 20:31

31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

1 Timothy 5:5

5Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Nehemiah 5:15

15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels[+] of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

1 Corinthians 9:6-7

6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? 7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

1 Corinthians 9:15

15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

1 Timothy 4:10

10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.