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;
F.O.G Original
(9) Not because we don’t have the authority but rather to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate us.
F.O.G
(9) Not because we don’t have the authority but rather to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate us.
F.O.G MSG
⁹We 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.