Acts 20:34-36

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³⁴You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.^[a] ³⁵In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

³⁶And when he had spoken thus, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

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20.34 Paul insisted on working for his living, though recognizing the apostle’s right to support by the faithful; cf. 1 Cor 9.4-7.

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