2 Thessalonians 3:9

NIV: We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.

NAS: 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.

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

GWT: It's not as though we didn't have a right to receive support. Rather, we wanted to set an example for you to follow.

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

BBE: Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

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.

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

WBS: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves a pattern to you to follow us.

WEB: not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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