Devine Scripture

2 Thessalonians 3:8

2 Thessalonians chapter 3 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

Context

v.7For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

v.8This passage

v.9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 4:28

    Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11

    and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

  • 1 Corinthians 4:12

    and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:9

    For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

  • Acts 18:3

    and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:9

    and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.