Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
WEB
Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
YLT
not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
DBT
not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New Testament2 Thessalonians — A short follow-up clarifying eschatology. The day of the Lord has not come; the man of lawlessness must first be revealed.
- Author
- Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1:1)
- Date
- c. AD 51–52, from Corinth — months after 1 Thessalonians