1 Thessalonians 2:9-12 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you… It was the custom among the old Greeks that every Athenian youth, as soon as he could carry weapons, should take this oath — "I will not disgrace the sacred arms entrusted to me by my country, and I will not desert the place committed to me to defend." (W. Buxton.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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