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

³ and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers.^(A)

⁸ 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) 9} This was not because we do not have that right but in order to give you an example to imitate.^(B)

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

⁹ 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)

²² So he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Asia.^(A)