⁸ neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

⁹ For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

³ and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

¹¹ and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;

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

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

⁹ When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

¹² We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread.

²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.