Thematic Bible: Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28
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Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Self-support
and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;
And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him,
But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Thorn
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;
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