constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

and because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

You yourselves know that these hands rendered service to my needs, and those who were with me.

By all things I have shown you, that thus laboring it is necessary to help [those] being weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working?

But I used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should become thus for me; for it is better for me rather to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you;

not because we do not have authority, but in order that we may give ourselves as a pattern to you, so that you might follow us.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and to perfect what is lacking in your faith?

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

A song of a Psalm for the sons of Korah for the end, upon Mahaleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Heman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before You.

Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.

and she [was] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

And God, shall He not execute justice for His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, and yet He is patient with them?

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

Now she who is really a widow and having been left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how unceasingly I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,

Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, even though we were able to carry weight as apostles of Christ.

But as for the former acts of extortion in which [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty shekels for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people; but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

And there came [to me] for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts. Yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ free of charge, so as not to exploit my rights in the gospel.

and when I was present with you, and in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. And in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

Now for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But suffering before and being spitefully treated at Philippi, just as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much conflict.

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the gospel of God

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, [with] which I was entrusted.