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2 Corinthians 11 9
and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brothers came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
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2 Thessalonians 3 7-2 Thessalonians 3 9
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined way among you,nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a role model for you, so that you would follow our example.
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Acts 18:3
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent makers by trade.
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1 Timothy 4 10
For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all mankind, especially of believers.
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Acts 20:24
But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of God’s grace.
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1 Thessalonians 2 6
nor did we seek honor from people, either from you or from others, though we could have asserted our authority as apostles of Christ.
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2 Corinthians 6 5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in mob attacks, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For those slain of the daughter of my people!
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Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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2 Timothy 1 3
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day,
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1 Thessalonians 3 10
as we keep praying most earnestly night and day that we may see your faces, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?
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1 Corinthians 4 12
and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
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Psalms 32:4
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality failed as with the dry heat of summer. Selah
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Luke 2:37
and then as a widow to the age of eighty four. She did not leave the temple grounds, serving night and day with fasts and prayers.
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Philippians 4:16
for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.
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1 Timothy 1 11
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
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Luke 18:7
now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them?
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Psalms 88:1
Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
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Acts 20:31
Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
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1 Thessalonians 2 2
but after we had already suffered and been treated abusively in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.
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1 Thessalonians 1 3
constantly keeping in mind your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
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1 Timothy 5 5
Now she who is actually a widow and has been left alone has set her hope on God, and she continues in requests and prayers night and day.
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1 Corinthians 9 6-1 Corinthians 9 7
Or do only Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from working?Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?
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1 Corinthians 9 15
But I have used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make my boast an empty one!
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Romans 1:1
Paul, a bond servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
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Romans 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
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Nehemiah 5:15
But the previous governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of my fear of God.
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2 Corinthians 12 13-2 Corinthians 12 14
For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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Nehemiah 5:18
Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep; also birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all sorts of wine were provided in abundance. Yet for all this I did not request the governor’s food allowance, because the forced labor was heavy on this people.
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Acts 20:34-35
You yourselves know that these hands served my own needs and the men who were with me.In everything I showed you that by working hard in this way you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
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1 Corinthians 9 18
What, then, is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
