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2 Cô-rinh-tô 11 9
And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so. (niv)
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2 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 3 7-2 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 3 9
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you,nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. (niv)
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Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 18 3
and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. (niv)
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1 Ti-mô-thê 4 10
That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe. (niv)
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Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 20 24
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me— the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. (niv)
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1 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 2 6
We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. (niv)
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2 Cô-rinh-tô 6 5
in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; (niv)
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Giê-rê-mi 9 1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people. (niv)
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Rô-ma 15 16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (niv)
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2 Ti-mô-thê 1 3
I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. (niv)
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1 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 3 10
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. (niv)
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1 Cô-rinh-tô 4 12
We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; (niv)
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Thi Thiên 32 4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. (niv)
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Lu-ca 2 37
and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. (niv)
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Phi-líp 4 16
for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once when I was in need. (niv)
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1 Ti-mô-thê 1 11
that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. (niv)
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Lu-ca 18 7
And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? (niv)
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Thi Thiên 88 1
Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. (niv)
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Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 20 31
So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. (niv)
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1 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 2 2
We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. (niv)
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1 Tê-sa-lô-ni-ca 1 3
We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. (niv)
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1 Ti-mô-thê 5 5
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. (niv)
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1 Cô-rinh-tô 9 6-1 Cô-rinh-tô 9 7
Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? (niv)
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1 Cô-rinh-tô 9 15
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast. (niv)
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Rô-ma 1 1
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— (niv)
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Rô-ma 15 19
by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. (niv)
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Nê-hê-mi 5 15
But the earlier governors— those preceding me— placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that. (niv)
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2 Cô-rinh-tô 12 13-2 Cô-rinh-tô 12 14
How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. (niv)
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Nê-hê-mi 5 18
Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people. (niv)
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Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 20 34-Công Vụ Các Sứ Đồ 20 35
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said:‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” (niv)
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1 Cô-rinh-tô 9 18
What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel. (niv)