Acts 20:34

Geneva Bible (1560)

Yea, ye knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 And because hee was of the same crafte, he abode with them and wrought (for their crafte was to make tentes.)
  • Acts 19:22 : 22 So sent hee into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto him, Timotheus and Erastus, but he remained in Asia for a season.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

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  • 35I haue shewed you all things, howe that so labouring, ye ought to support the weake, and to remember the wordes of the Lord Iesus, howe that hee saide, It is a blessed thing to giue, rather then to receiue.

  • 33I haue coueted no mans siluer, nor gold, nor apparell.

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
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    8I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.

    9And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.

  • Phil 4:14-16
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    14Notwithstanding yee haue well done, that yee did communicate to mine affliction.

    15And yee Philippians knowe also that in the beginning of the Gospell, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with me, concerning the matter of giuing and receiuing, but yee onely.

    16For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,

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    18Who when they were come to him, hee said vnto them, Ye know from the first day that I came into Asia, after what maner I haue bene with you at all seasons,

    19Seruing the Lorde with all modestie, and with many teares, and tentations, which came vnto me by the layings awaite of the Iewes,

    20And how I kept backe nothing that was profitable, but haue shewed you, and taught you openly and throughout euery house,

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    8Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

    9Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

    10For euen when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any, which would not worke, that he should not eate.

  • 19I Paul haue written this with mine owne hande: I will recompense it, albeit I doe not say to thee, that thou owest moreouer vnto me euen thine owne selfe.

  • 35And layde it downe at the Apostles feete, and it was distributed vnto euery man, according as he had neede.

  • 34For both ye sorowed with mee for my bonds, and suffered with ioy the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues howe that ye haue in heauen a better, and an enduring substance.

  • 10Warning onely that we should remember the poore: which thing also I was diligent to doe.

  • 16That ye be obedient euen vnto such, and to all that helpe with vs and labour.

  • 28And yee are they which haue continued with me in my tentations.

  • 10But thou hast fully knowen my doctrine, maner of liuing, purpose, faith, long suffering, loue, patience,

  • 22But yee knowe the proofe of him, that as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me in the Gospel.

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    13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:

    14That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:

  • 25Whom he called together, with the workemen of like things, and saide, Syrs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue our goods:

  • 10Nowe I reioyce also in the Lord greatly, that nowe at the last your care for mee springeth afresh, wherein notwithstanding ye were careful, but yee lacked opportunitie.

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    13Doe ye not knowe, that they which minister about the holy things, eate of the things of the Temple? and they which waite at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

    14So also hath the Lorde ordeined, that they which preach ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel.

  • 12And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.

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    11And that ye studie to be quiet, & to meddle with your owne busines, and to worke with your owne handes, as we commaunded you,

    12That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • 10Nor a scrippe for the iourney, neither two coates, neither shoes, nor a staffe: for the workeman is worthie of his meate.

  • 35And he saide vnto them, When I sent you without bagge, and scrip, and shooes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

  • 28Let him that stole, steale no more: but let him rather labour, and worke with his handes the thing which is good, that hee may haue to giue vnto him that needeth.

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    3For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing,

    4And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.

  • 20Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,

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    24But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lorde Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

    25And now behold, I know that henceforth ye all, through whome I haue gone preaching the kingdome of God, shall see my face no more.

  • 13And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

  • 9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.

  • 11Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine owne hand.

  • 2For ye knowe what commaundements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.

  • 24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receiue the reward of the inheritance: for ye serue the Lord Christ.

  • 9For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich.

  • 18The Lord graunt vnto him, that he may finde mercie with the Lorde at that day, and in howe many things he hath ministred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

  • 15For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.

  • 5Wherefore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren to come before vnto you, and to finish your beneuolence appointed afore, that it might be readie, and come as of beneuolence, and not as of niggardlinesse.

  • 13(Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men)

  • 27For it hath pleased them, and their detters are they: for if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spirituall things, their duetie is also to minister vnto them in carnall things.

  • 12And I can be abased, and I can abounde: euery where in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungrie, and to abounde, and to haue want.