2 Thessalonians 3:9

In 9 translations

BSB

Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

KJV

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

WEB

This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

ASV

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

LSV

not because we have no authority, but that we might give ourselves to you [as] a pattern, to imitate us;

YLT

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

DBY

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

DRC

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

GNV

Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐχ ὅτι οὐκ ἔχομεν ἐξουσίαν, ἀλλʼ ἵνα ἑαυτοὺς τύπον δῶμεν ὑμῖν εἰς τὸ μιμεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς.

RP2018

οὐχ ὅτι οὐκ ἔχομεν ἐξουσίαν, ἀλλ’ ἵνα ἑαυτοὺς τύπον δῶμεν ὑμῖν εἰς τὸ μιμεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς.

TR-Boyd

οὐχ ὅτι οὐκ ἔχομεν ἐξουσίαν, ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα ἑαυτοὺς τύπον δῶμεν ὑμῖν εἰς τὸ μιμεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς.

SCR1894

ουχ οτι ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν αλλ ινα εαυτους τυπον δωμεν υμιν εις το μιμεισθαι ημας

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Cross-references most cited first

• 2 Thessalonians 3:7For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
• 1 Corinthians 9:4–14Have we no right to food and to drink? Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?…
• 1 Thessalonians 2:6Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.
• Galatians 6:6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
• John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• Matthew 10:10Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
• 1 Peter 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

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