KJVNot 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 that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
2 Thessalonians — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
2 That we may be delivered. The old interpreter has rendered it, not unhappily, in my opinion -- unreasonable Now, by this term, as also by that which immediately follows, (ton poneron,) evil, Paul means wicked and treacherous men, who lurked in the Church, under the name of Christians, or…