2 Thessalonians 3:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example, for you to imitate us.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ [It was] not because we do not have a right [to such support], but [we wished] to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

Common English Bible

⁹ We did this to give you an example to imitate, not because we didn’t have a right to insist on financial support.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 Cross References

Matthew 10:10

or a bag for the journey, or two undergarments, or sandals, or staffs, for the worker is worthy of his food.

John 13:15

“For I gave you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

1 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore I appeal to you, to become imitators of me.

Galatians 6:6

And let him who is instructed in the Word share in all that is good, with him who is instructing.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor were we looking for praise from men, not from you nor from others, though we could have been a burden to you, as emissaries of Messiah.

2 Thessalonians 3:7

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, for we were not disorderly among you,

1 Peter 2:21

For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,

1 Peter 5:3

neither as being masters over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.