2 Thessalonians 3:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food.

John 13:15

For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.

1 Corinthians 4:16

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

Galatians 6:6

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:7

For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

1 Peter 2:21

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

1 Peter 5:3

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.