2 Thessalonians 3:9

It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

10And while we were with you, we also gave you this precept, That every one who would not work, should likewise not eat.

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Cross References

John 13:15For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.

Galatians 6:6And let him that heareth the word, communicate to him who instructeth him, in all good things.

2 Thessalonians 3:7For ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who did not walk wickedly among you.

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:7-16

Cautions to the Disorderly. ( a. d. 52.) 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but… Read the whole commentary →

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