2 Thessalonians 3:9
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
In context
7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
9 Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
10 For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
11 Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:9 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
- KJV King James Version
- Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
- WEB World English Bible
- This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
- ASV American Standard Version
- not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
- DBY Darby Translation
- not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves a pattern to you to follow us.