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

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

²² Having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

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

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.

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 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.