New Revised Standard Version
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,

Contemporary English Version
You surely know that you should follow our example. We didn't waste our time loafing,

New American Bible
For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.

For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.

how.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

1 Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17 Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

Philippians 4:9 The things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, these do ye: and the God of peace shall be with you.

1 Thessalonians 1:6,7 And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: . . .

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Titus 2:7 In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,

1 Peter 5:3 Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

for.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed: