2 Corinthians 10:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ so that we may proclaim the good news in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in someone else’s field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So that [we may even] preach the Gospel in lands [lying] beyond you, without making a boast of work already done in another [man's] sphere of activity [before we came on the scene].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ We hope that our work grows even to the point of the gospel being preached in places beyond Corinth, without bragging about what has already been done in another person’s work area.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ and even so as to evangelize in those places that are beyond you, not in order to glory in the measure of others, but rather in those things which have already been prepared.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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.

2 Corinthians 10:16 Cross References

Acts 19:21

Now after these things had been accomplished, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go through Macedonia and Achaia and then to go on to Jerusalem. He said, “After I have gone there, I must also see Rome.”

Romans 15:20

Thus I make it my ambition to proclaim the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on someone else’s foundation,

2 Corinthians 11:7

Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed God’s good news to you free of charge?