1 Corinthians 9:6
Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
BSB
ASV
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
KJV
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Or I only and Barnabas - Have we alone of all the apostles no right to be supported by our converts? It appears from this, 1. That the apostles did not generally support themselves by their own labor. 2. That Paul and Barnabas did thus support themselves. Some of the others probably had not a business at which they could conveniently work; but Paul and Barnabas had a trade at which they could conveniently labor wherever they came.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to…
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For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
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Acts 18:3and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
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Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
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Acts 4:36Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),
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And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and…
