remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

And, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers.

Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have served for my necessities, and for those who were with me.

I have shown you in everything, by laboring like this, that we need to support the weak. And 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 authority to not work?

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so with me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my exulting void.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings,

For you yourselves know how you need to imitate our example, for we were not disorderly among you;

not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should imitate us.

For to this end we both labor and are reproached, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

For by day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

i1 [A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician. Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] i0 par O Jehovah the God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night 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 shall God not avenge His elect who cry out day and night to Him, as He is patient with them?

Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

Nor did we seek honor from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been authoritative as apostles of Christ.

But the former governors who had been before me were heavy on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Now that which was prepared daily was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine. Yet in all of this I did not demand the food of the governor, because the labor was heavy on this people.

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

What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked, the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Now the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you in much conflict.

But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, 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 round about to Illyricum I have fulfilled the preaching of the gospel of Christ.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.