34 YOU yourselves know that these hands have attended to the needs of me+ and of those with me.

12 and to toil,+ working with our own hands.+ When being reviled, we bless;+ when being persecuted, we bear up;+

15 But I have not made use of a single one of these [provisions].+ Indeed, I have not written these things that it should become so in my case, for it would be finer for me to die than—no man is going to make my reason for boasting+ void!

9 Certainly YOU bear in mind, brothers, our labor and toil. It was with working+ night and day, so as not to put an expensive burden upon any one of YOU,+ that we preached the good news of God to YOU.

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