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Acts 18:3
Acts 18:3 is verse 3 of Acts chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
King James Version
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
World English Bible
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
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Acts 18:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
3 and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
5 And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
1 Corinthians 4:12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
1 Corinthians 9:6Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
1 Corinthians 9:10Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
1 Corinthians 9:11If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
1 Corinthians 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
1 Thessalonians 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.