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Related Verses

Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.

1 Corinthians 4:12
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?

2 Corinthians 12:13
For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

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