1 Thessalonians 2:9
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9 For you remember, brothers, (A)our labor and toil: we (B)worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
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7 For you yourselves know (A)how you ought to imitate us, because (B)we were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but (C)with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9 It was (D)not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves (E)an example to imitate.
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2 Corinthians 11:9
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9 And when I was with you and was (A)in need, (B)I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia (C)supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain (D)from burdening you in any way.
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Acts 18:3
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3 and (A)because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
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2 Corinthians 12:13-14
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13 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that (A)I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 Here (B)for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for (C)I seek not what is yours but you. For (D)children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but (E)parents for their children.
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2 Timothy 1:3
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Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You
3 (A)I thank God (B)whom I serve, as did my ancestors, (C)with a clear conscience, as I remember you (D)constantly in my prayers night and day.
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1 Timothy 4:10
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10 For to this end we toil and strive,[a] because we have our hope set on the living God, (A)who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
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- 1 Timothy 4:10 Some manuscripts and suffer reproach
1 Thessalonians 2:6
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6 (A)Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, (B)though we could have made (C)demands as (D)apostles of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 9:18
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18 What then is my reward? That in my preaching (A)I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
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1 Corinthians 9:15
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15 But (A)I 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 (B)deprive me of my ground for boasting.
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1 Corinthians 9:6-7
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6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 7 (A)Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? (B)Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
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1 Corinthians 4:12
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12 and we (A)labor, working with our own hands. (B)When reviled, we bless; (C)when persecuted, we endure;
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Nehemiah 5:18
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18 (A)Now what was prepared at my expense[a] for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this (B)I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.
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- Nehemiah 5:18 Or prepared for me
Nehemiah 5:15
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15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration[a] forty shekels[b] of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, (A)because of the fear of God.
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- Nehemiah 5:15 Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them for food and wine after
- Nehemiah 5:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
1 Timothy 5:5
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5 She (A)who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and (B)continues in supplications and prayers night and day,
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1 Timothy 1:11
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11 in accordance with (A)the gospel of the glory of (B)the blessed God (C)with which I have been entrusted.
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1 Thessalonians 3:10
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10 as we pray most earnestly (A)night and day (B)that we may see you face to face and (C)supply what is lacking in your faith?
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1 Thessalonians 2:2
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2 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated (A)at Philippi, as you know, (B)we had boldness in our God (C)to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much (D)conflict.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
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3 remembering before (A)our God and Father (B)your work of faith and labor of (C)love and (D)steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Philippians 4:16
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16 Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.
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2 Corinthians 6:5
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5 (A)beatings, imprisonments, (B)riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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Romans 15:19
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19 (A)by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that (B)from Jerusalem and all the way around (C)to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;
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Romans 15:16
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16 to be (A)a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles (B)in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that (C)the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 1:1
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Greeting
1 Paul, (A)a servant[a] of Christ Jesus, (B)called to be an apostle, (C)set apart for the gospel of God,
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- Romans 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Acts 20:34-35
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34 (A)You yourselves know that (B)these hands ministered to my necessities and (C)to those who were with me. 35 In all things (D)I have shown you that (E)by working hard in this way we must (F)help the weak and (G)remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed (H)to give than to receive.’”
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