Acts 20:34
Good News Translation
You yourselves know that I have worked with these hands of mine to provide everything that my companions and I have needed.

New Revised Standard Version
You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions.

Contemporary English Version
You know how I have worked with my own hands to make a living for myself and my friends.

New American Bible
You know well that these very hands have served my needs and my companions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

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Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

1 Corinthians 4:12 And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8,9 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. . . .

Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
33I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as 34You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished. 35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.…
Cross References
Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Acts 19:22
And sending into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself remained for a time in Asia.

Acts 19:29
And the whole city was filled with confusion. And having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

Acts 20:35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

Titus 3:15
All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the faith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.

Acts 20:33
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