⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

⁹ and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and `so' will I keep `myself'.

¹² and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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

¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.

²⁷ She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.