2 Thessalonians 3:9

Not because we haue not power, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

not because we do not have the right {to this,} but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.
- Basic English Bible

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

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

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

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

not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for 2 Thessalonians 3:9

3:10 Neither let him eat - Do not maintain him in idleness.

3:11 Doing nothing, but being busybodies - To which idleness naturally disposes.