NASB
"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."
— 2 Thessalonians 3:9, NASB
“Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.”
“not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us. ”
“not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.”
“It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.”
“Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.”
“Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.”
“Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.”
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;
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.
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.