2 Corinthians 10:16 so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else's territory.

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New International Version
so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else's territory.

English Standard Version
so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence.

New American Standard Bible
so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that we may proclaim the good news to the regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else's area of ministry.

International Standard Version
Then we can preach the gospel in the regions far beyond you without boasting about things already accomplished by someone else.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, unto those places that are beyond you, to preach the gospel, not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready to our hand.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
in the places beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

Cross References

Acts 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.

Romans 15:20
Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation:

2 Corinthians 11:7
Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his measure, which was the measure God had distributed to him. There is not a more fruitful source of error, than to judge of persons and opinions by our own prejudices. How common is it for persons to judge of their own religious character, by the opinions and maxims of the world around them! But how different is the rule of God's word! And of all flattery, self-flattery is the worst. Therefore, instead of praising ourselves, we should strive to approve ourselves to God. In a word, let us glory in the Lord our salvation, and in all other things only as evidences of his love, or means of promoting his glory. Instead of praising ourselves, or seeking the praise of men, let us desire that honour which cometh from God only.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. To—that is, so as to preach … beyond you (and) not to boast, &c.

in another man's line of things made ready to our hand—Do not connect "line of things," &c.; but "boast of things," &c. To make this clearer, arrange the words thus, "Not to boast as to things (already made by the preaching of others) ready to our hand in another man's line (that is, within the line, or sphere of labor, apportioned by God to another)."