Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.

He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king’s country for their food supply.

do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you.

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.