34 You yourselves know that these hands have provided for my own needs+ and the needs of those with me.

11 Down to this very hour we continue to hunger+ and thirst+ and to be poorly clothed and to be beaten*+ and to be homeless 12 and to toil, working with our own hands.+ When insulted, we bless;+ when persecuted, we patiently endure;+

14 In this way, too, the Lord commanded for those proclaiming the good news to live by means of the good news.+

15 But I have not made use of a single one of these provisions.+ Indeed, I have not written these things so that this would be done for me, for it would be better to die than—no man will take away my grounds for boasting!+

9 Surely you remember, brothers, our labor and toil. We were working night and day, so that we would not put an expensive burden on any one of you,+ when we preached the good news of God to you.

8 nor did we eat anyone’s food free.*+ On the contrary, by labor and toil we were working night and day so as not to impose an expensive burden on any one of you.+

10 In fact, when we were with you, we used to give you this order: “If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat.”+