帖撒罗尼迦后书 3:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

也沒有白吃過誰的飯，反而辛苦勞碌，晝夜作工，免得加重你們任何一人的負擔。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
也 未 尝 白 吃 人 的 饭 ， 倒 是 辛 苦 劳 碌 ， 昼 夜 做 工 ， 免 得 叫 你 们 一 人 受 累 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ Brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ we command you to stay away from any believer who refuses to work and does not follow the teaching we gave you. ⁷ You yourselves know that you should live as we live. We were not lazy when we were with you. ⁸ And when we ate another person's food, we always paid for it. We worked very hard night and day so we would not be an expense to any of you. ⁹ We had the right to ask you to help us, but we worked to take care of ourselves so we would be an example for you to follow. ¹⁰ When we were with you, we gave you this rule: "Anyone who refuses to work should not eat." ¹¹ We hear that some people in your group refuse to work. They do nothing but busy themselves in other people's lives. ¹² We command those people and beg them in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and earn their own food. ¹³ But you, brothers and sisters, never become tired of doing good. ¹⁴ If some people do not obey what we tell you in this letter, then take note of them. Have nothing to do with them so they will feel ashamed. ¹⁵ But do not treat them as enemies. Warn them as fellow believers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat: 2 Thessalonians 3:12, Proverbs 31:27, Matthew 6:11

but: Acts 18:3, Acts 20:34, 1 Corinthians 4:12, 2 Corinthians 11:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:11

night: 1 Thessalonians 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:6 - General 2 Kings 5:26 - Is it a time 2 Kings 6:2 - and take thence Nehemiah 5:14 - I and my Psalms 104:23 - General Proverbs 12:11 - tilleth Proverbs 16:26 - laboureth Ecclesiastes 3:10 - General John 15:25 - without Acts 20:31 - night 1 Corinthians 9:4 - we 1 Corinthians 9:12 - Nevertheless 1 Corinthians 9:15 - I have 1 Corinthians 9:18 - when 2 Corinthians 11:7 - in 2 Corinthians 11:27 - weariness Colossians 1:29 - labour Titus 3:14 - maintain good works Revelation 2:3 - hast laboured Revelation 4:8 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.'"

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."

Deuteronomy 4:33
No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and have still lived. But you have.

Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought.... Or freely, at free cost, without paying for it; he signifies, that what they ate, they bought with their own money, and lived on no man, without giving him a valuable consideration for what they had; though if they had not paid in money for their food, they would not have ate it for nought, since they laboured among them in preaching the Gospel to them; and such labourers are worthy of their maintenance, Luke 10:7 though the former sense is the apostle's here:

but wrought with labour and travail night and day: not only laboriously preaching the Gospel to them, as often as they could have opportunity, but working very hard and incessantly with their hands, at the occupations and trades they had been brought up to; and that of the Apostle Paul's was a tentmaker, at which he sometimes wrought, thereby ministering to his own, and the necessities of others, Acts 18:3, nor was this inconsistent with his learning and liberal education. It was usual with the Jewish doctors to learn a trade, or follow some business and calling of life; Acts 18:3- :. The apostle's end in this was,

that we might not be chargeable to any of you; or burdensome to them, they being for the most part poor; and the apostles being able partly by their own hand labour, and partly by what they received from Philippi, Philippians 4:16 to support themselves, chose to that they might not lie heavy upon them, and any ways hinder the spread of the Gospel among them, at its first coming to them. And so Maimonides says the ancient Jewish doctors behaved, and with a like view: wherefore, says he p,

"if a man is a wise man, and an honourable man, and poor, let him employ himself in some handicraft business, even though a mean one, and not distress men (or be burdensome to them); it is better to strip the skins of beasts that have been torn, than to say to the people, I am a considerable wise (or learned) man, I am a priest, take care of me, and maintain me; and so the wise men have ordered: and some of the greatest doctors have been hewers of wood, and carriers of timber, and drawers of water for the gardens, and have wrought in iron and coals, and have not required anything of the congregation; nor would they take anything of them, when they would have given to them.''

p Hilchot Mattanot Anayim, c. 10. sect. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought - We were not supported in idleness at the expense of others. We gave a fair equivalent for all that we received, and, in fact, labored for our own support; see the notes on 1 Thessalonians 2:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught — We paid for what we bought, and worked with our hands that we might have money to buy what was necessary.

Labour and travail night and day — We were incessantly employed, either in preaching the Gospel, visiting from house to house, or working at our calling. As it is very evident that the Church at Thessalonica was very pious, and most affectionately attached to the apostle, they must have been very poor, seeing he was obliged to work hard to gain himself the necessaries of life. Had they been able to support him he would not have worked with labour and travail night and day, that he might not be burdensome to them; and, as we may presume that they were very poor, he could not have got his support among them without adding to their burdens. To this his generous mind could not submit; it is no wonder, therefore, that he is so severe against those who would not labour, but were a burden to the poor followers of God.