Cross references

Acts 18:3

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

Acts 18:3 BSB

Acts 18:3 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Corinthians 4:12 (9 votes) and 1 Thessalonians 2:9 (9 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 46 to Titus 3.

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Which verses does Acts 18:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

  2. Surely 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.

  3. Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  4. And 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.

  5. nor 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. Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

  6. In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

  7. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In 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.’”

  8. Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living? Who 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? …

Which verses point to Acts 18:3?

The 10 strongest of 20.