Acts 18:3

“You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to those who were with me.

and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

If others share this authority over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this authority, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than have anyone make my boast an empty one.

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my authority in the gospel.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without charge?

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;