2 Corinthians 10:16
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.
KJV
εἰς τὰ ὑπερέκεινα ὑμῶν εὐαγγελίσασθαι, οὐκ ἐν ἀλλοτρίῳ κανόνι εἰς τὰ ἕτοιμα καυχήσασθαι.
Greek NT
etiam in illa, quæ ultra vos sunt, evangelizare, non in aliena regula in iis quæ præparata sunt gloriari.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 19:21 — After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
- Job 38:5 — Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- Rom 15:24 — Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.