19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 4:12 — And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
• 1Cor 9:4 — Have we not power to eat and to drink?
• 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
• 1Cor 9:15 — But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
• 1Cor 9:18 — What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
• 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 2Cor 11:9 — And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from bei
• 2Cor 11:9 — And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from bei
• 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 2Thess 3:12 — Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
• 2Thess 3:12 — Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
• Acts 18:3 — And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
• Acts 18:3 — And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
• Acts 20:34 — Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
• Acts 20:34 — Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
• Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Eph 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Matt 6:11 — Give us this day our daily bread.
• Neh 5:14 — Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and
• Prov 12:11 — He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
• Prov 16:26 — He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
• Prov 31:27 — She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
• Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.