1 Thessalonians 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹For 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.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; …
2 Corinthians 11:9
And 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.
Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
2 Corinthians 12:13-14
For 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. …
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

In these words the apostle reminds the Thessalonians of the manner of his conversation among them. And, I. He mentions the gentleness of their behaviour: We were gentle among you, 1 Thess. 2:7. He showed great mildness and tenderness who might have acted with the authority of an apostle of Christ. Such behaviour greatly recommends religion, and is most agreeable to God’s gracious dealing with sinn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. labour and travail--The Greek for “labor” means hardship in bearing; that for “travail,” hardship in doing; the former, toil with the utmost solicitude; the latter, the being wearied with fatigue [Grotius]. Zanchius refers the former to spiritual (see 1Th 3:5), the latter to manual labor. I would translate, “weariness (so the Greek is translated, 2Co 11:27) and travail” (hard labor, toil). for-…