1 Thes 2:9 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:9

9: Don't you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that our expenses would not be a burden to anyone there as we preached God's Good News among you.

2 Thessalonians 3:7

  1. For you know that you ought to follow our example. We were never lazy when we were with you.
  2. We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
  3. It wasn't that we didn't have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.

2 Corinthians 11:9

  1. And when I was with you and didn't have enough to live on, I did not ask you to help me. For the brothers who came from Macedonia brought me another gift. I have never yet asked you for any support, and I never will.

Acts 18:3

  1. Paul lived and worked with them, for they were tentmakers just as he was.

1 Timothy 4:10

  1. We work hard and suffer much in order that people will believe the truth, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and particularly of those who believe.

2 Corinthians 12:13

  1. The only thing I didn't do, which I do in the other churches, was to become a burden to you. Please forgive me for this wrong!
  2. Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want what you have; I want you. And anyway, little children don't pay for their parents' food. It's the other way around; parents supply food for their children.

Jeremiah 9:1

  1. Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears; I would weep forever! I would sob day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

  1. You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, even though we were surrounded by many who opposed us.

1 Corinthians 9:15

  1. Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I would like to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my distinction of preaching without charge.

Nehemiah 5:15

  1. This was quite a contrast to the former governors who had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides a pound of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because of my fear of God, I did not act that way.

1 Corinthians 4:12

  1. We have worked wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us.

Philippians 4:16

  1. Even when I was in Thessalonica you sent help more than once.

2 Corinthians 6:5

  1. We have been beaten, been put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food.

Acts 20:34

  1. You know that these hands of mine have worked to pay my own way, and I have even supplied the needs of those who were with me.
  2. And I have been a constant example of how you can help the poor by working hard. You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

Luke 18:7

  1. Even he rendered a just decision in the end, so don't you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who plead with him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

1 Thessalonians 2:6

  1. As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else.

Acts 20:31

  1. Watch out! Remember the three years I was with you--my constant watch and care over you night and day, and my many tears for you.

Romans 15:19

  1. I have won them over by the miracles done through me as signs from God--all by the power of God's Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ all the way from Jerusalem clear over into Illyricum.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

  1. As we talk to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and your continual anticipation of the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Nehemiah 5:18

  1. The provisions required at my expense for each day were one ox, six fat sheep, and a large number of domestic fowl. And every ten days we needed a large supply of all kinds of wine. Yet I refused to claim the governor's food allowance because the people were already having a difficult time.

Psalms 32:4

  1. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

  1. Night and day we pray earnestly for you, asking God to let us see you again to fill up anything that may still be missing in your faith.

2 Timothy 1:3

  1. Timothy, I thank God for you. He is the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

1 Timothy 1:11

  1. that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.

1 Timothy 5:5

  1. But a woman who is a true widow, one who is truly alone in this world, has placed her hope in God. Night and day she asks God for help and spends much time in prayer.

Romans 1:1

  1. This letter is from Paul, Jesus Christ's slave, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:6

  1. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?
  2. What soldier has to pay his own expenses? And have you ever heard of a farmer who harvests his crop and doesn't have the right to eat some of it? What shepherd takes care of a flock of sheep and isn't allowed to drink some of the milk?

Psalms 88:1

  1. O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out to you day and night.

1 Corinthians 9:18

  1. What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.

Acts 20:24

  1. But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus--the work of telling others the Good News about God's wonderful kindness and love.

Luke 2:37

  1. She was now eighty-four years old. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.

Romans 15:16

  1. a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News and offer you up as a fragrant sacrifice to God so that you might be pure and pleasing to him by the Holy Spirit.
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