13. But we will not boast beyond limits, but within the limits of the area that God has assigned to us—to reach even as far as you.
14. We are not extending ourselves too far, as if we did not reach you—for we did come even as far as to you with the Good News of Messiah.
15. Neither are we boasting beyond limits based on the labors of others, but we have hope while your faith is growing for our area among you to be greatly enlarged—
16. so that we may proclaim the Good News even to regions beyond you, not boasting about what has been accomplished in another’s area.
17. But “let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
18. For it Is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.