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2 Corinthians 11 9-2 Corinthians 11 12
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.As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
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1 Corinthians 9 12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
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2 Thessalonians 3 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,
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Acts 18:3
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
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1 Thessalonians 2 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 Good News of God.
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Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
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1 Corinthians 4 12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
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Matthew 18:6
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
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2 Corinthians 12 13-2 Corinthians 12 18
For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?Even so, I myself didn’t burden you.“ But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
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Acts 8:3
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
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Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
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Philippians 1:20-23
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.