so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory.
After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”
It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?