St. Paul working hard (as they all knew) for a livelihood, Acts 18:3 1 Corinthians 4:12 1 Thessalonians 2:9; which he gives an account of, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, to have been done only that in such a juncture, they being poor, and the false teachers watching all advantages against him, he might not then be chargeable to them.
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Acts 20:34
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.