2 Corinthians 10:12-16 Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another. ¹³ But I shall never go too far in my boasting; no, I shall stay within the limits of the sphere which God apportioned me, so as to reach even you. ¹⁴ For I am not overstepping my authority as though I should not reach you, for I was the very first to reach as far as you with the good news of Christ. ¹⁵ I am not going too far in my boasting, and actually boasting of other men's labors, but I am cherishing the hope that your faith may so continue to grow that through you my work within my sphere may be so enlarged as to run over, ¹⁶ so that I can preach the good news in the regions beyond you, without boasting in another man's sphere of work already done by him.