² So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.

³ Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They said to him, And we will come with you. They went out and got into the boat; but that night they took no fish.

³ And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

³⁴ You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

³⁵ In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

⁶ Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

⁹ For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

⁸ And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

⁶ But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: