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2 Corinthians 11 9
When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
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2 Thessalonians 3 7-2 Thessalonians 3 9
For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
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Acts 18:3
and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them( for they were tentmakers by trade).
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1 Timothy 4 10
In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.
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Acts 20:24
But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
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1 Thessalonians 2 6
nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,
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2 Corinthians 6 5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
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Jeremiah 9:1
( 8: 23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
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Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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2 Timothy 1 3
I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
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1 Thessalonians 3 10
We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.
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1 Corinthians 4 12
We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,
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Psalms 32:4
For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.( Selah)
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Luke 2:37
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty- four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
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Philippians 4:16
For even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent something for my need.
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1 Timothy 1 11
This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.
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Luke 18:7
Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
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Psalms 88:1
O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.
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Acts 20:31
Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
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1 Thessalonians 2 2
But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.
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1 Thessalonians 1 3
because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Timothy 5 5
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
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1 Corinthians 9 6-1 Corinthians 9 7
Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?
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1 Corinthians 9 15
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!
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Romans 1:1
From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be 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 of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
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Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
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2 Corinthians 12 13-2 Corinthians 12 14
For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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Nehemiah 5:18
Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.
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Acts 20:34-35
You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we 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 free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.