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14 For we are not, as-if not reaching to you, overextending ourselves. For we arrived even as far as you in connection with the good-news of Christ!— 15 not boasting in unmeasured things, in labors belonging-to-others, but having the hope, while your faith is growing, that we might be enlarged[a] in[b] you in relation to our standard of measure, for an abundance; 16 that we might announce-the-good-news in the regions beyond[c] you, not that we might boast in the prepared things in the standard of measure belonging-to-another.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 10:15 Or, lengthened.
  2. 2 Corinthians 10:15 Or, by.
  3. 2 Corinthians 10:16 A few months later, Paul wrote Romans from Corinth in Act 20:2-3, setting his sights on Rome.

14 We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you(A) with the gospel of Christ.(B) 15 Neither do we go beyond our limits(C) by boasting of work done by others.(D) Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow,(E) our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, 16 so that we can preach the gospel(F) in the regions beyond you.(G) For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory.

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