2 Corinthians 10:13
Good News Translation
As for us, however, our boasting will not go beyond certain limits; it will stay within the limits of the work which God has set for us, and this includes our work among you.

New Revised Standard Version
We, however, will not boast beyond limits, but will keep within the field that God has assigned to us, to reach out even as far as you.

Contemporary English Version
We won't brag about something we don't have a right to brag about. We will only brag about the work God has sent us to do, and you are part of that work.

New American Bible
But we will not boast beyond measure but will keep to the limits God has apportioned us, namely, to reach even to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But 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.

we will not.

2 Corinthians 10:15 Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly.

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

according.

2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

Matthew 25:15 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.

Romans 12:6 And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;

Romans 15:20 And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man a foundation.

1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

Ephesians 4:7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

rule.

Psalm 19:4 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Isaiah 28:17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.

Romans 10:18 But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the whole world.

Context
Paul's Apostolic Authority
12For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves with ourselves. 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. 14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.…
Cross References
Romans 12:3
For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

2 Corinthians 10:15
Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly.

2 Corinthians 10:12
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