13But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.


In Context

10 For, |His letters,| they say, |are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.|

11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

2 Corinthians 10:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not boast of things without [our] measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:13We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not glory beyond our measure; but according to the measure of the rule, which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us — to reach even unto you;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:13But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.