Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Thessalonians 3:8

"neither did we eat bread for nought at any man`s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:" — 2 Thessalonians 3:8 (ASV)

Neither—They might have thought it possible to live on others without incurring so serious a charge as “disorderliness.”

Eat any man’s bread—Still more literally, eat bread from any man—that is, from any man’s table. St. Paul always becomes picturesque and vivid in a passage of this kind, and generally Hebraistic (like the phrase “eat bread” in 2 Samuel 9:7 and elsewhere). The phrase “for nothing” is literally at a gift. There is a flavor of scorn in St. Paul’s disclaimer of such a parasite’s life.

Wrought—In the original, it is the participle “working,” which better suits the rapid flow of the sentences. The order is also slightly more forceful: We ate bread from no man’s table as a gift, but in toil and travail, working night and day... To “be chargeable” means more than “to make you pay”; it contains the notion of burdensome expense.