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2 Thessalonians 3:9

WorkFollowing Jesus

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.

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.

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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 and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
DARBY
not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
BLB
not that we do not have authority, but so that we might give ourselves [as] a pattern to you⁺ for you to imitate us.
ÅB
ikke fordi vi ikke har rett til det, men for å gi dere et forbilde i oss, for at dere skulle etterfølge oss;
OTB
ikke fordi vi mangler rett til slik støtte, men for å presentere oss som et eksempel for dere å etterligne.
B1930
ikke fordi vi ikke har rett til det, men for å gi eder et forbillede i oss, forat I skulde efterfølge oss;

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