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Acts 18:3
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Acts 18:3
3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
3And because hee was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for by their occupation they were tentmakers.)
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 18:3
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A skilled trade or occupation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A dwelling or place of residence; also remained or continued in a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
occupation
Employment, business, trade, or the work in which a person is engaged.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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Open the full verse study9For 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.
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Open the full verse study7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
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Open the full verse study9And 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 being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
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Open the full verse study8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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Open the full verse study13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
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Open the full verse study6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12If 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.
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Open the full verse study34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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