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and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you.(A)

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11     Give us today our daily bread.[a](A)

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  1. 6.11 Or our bread for tomorrow

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.(A)

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and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers.(A)

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11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,(A)

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28 Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

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12 and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;(A)

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12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.(A)

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And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for my needs were supplied by the brothers who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will continue to refrain from burdening you in any way.(A)

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34 You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions.(A)

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27 She looks well to the ways of her household
    and does not eat the bread of idleness.(A)

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