³⁴ Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

³ And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

⁸ 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:

⁹ Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

¹² And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

⁹ 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.

²² So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.