2 Corinthians 10:16
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.
- KJV
- To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
- WEB
- so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
- ASV
- so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another`s province in regard of things ready to our hand.
- DARBY
- to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.
- BLB
- so as to preach the gospel [in] the [places] beyond you⁺, not to boast in the things ready in another’s area.
- ÅB
- så vi kan føre evangeliet fram til de land som ligger på andre siden av dere, og ikke innenfor andres område rose oss av det som alt er virket.
- OTB
- slik at vi kan forkynne evangeliet i regionene bortenfor dere. For vi ønsker ikke å skryte av arbeid som allerede er utført i andres territorium.
- B1930
- så vi kan føre evangeliet frem til de land som ligger på hin side av eder, og ikke innenfor andres område rose oss av det som alt er virket.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 15:24–28
Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Read in contextActs 19:21
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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