We are not reaching beyond these boundaries when we claim authority over you, as if we had never visited you. For we were the first to travel all the way to Corinth with the Good News of Christ.

我们并非过了自己的界限，好像够不到你们那里；因为我们早到你们那里，传了基督的福音。

我们扩展到你们那里时并没有越过了自己的界限，其实我们是首先到你们那里传基督福音的。

我们扩展到你们那里时并没有越过了自己的界限，其实我们是首先到你们那里传基督福音的。

其实把你们包括在我们夸口的范围之内一点都不过分，因为我们曾把基督的福音传到你们那里。

如果我们没有到过你们那里，现在就自夸得过分了；但事实上，我们早就把基督的福音传到你们那里了。

的确，我们没有过于扩张自己，好像达不到你们那里，实际上我们带着基督的福音已经来了，甚至远到你们那里。

我們並非過了自己的界限，好像搆不到你們那裏；因為我們早到你們那裏，傳了基督的福音。

我們擴展到你們那裏時並沒有越過了自己的界限，其實我們是首先到你們那裏傳基督福音的。

我們擴展到你們那裏時並沒有越過了自己的界限，其實我們是首先到你們那裏傳基督福音的。

其實把你們包括在我們誇口的範圍之內一點都不過分，因為我們曾把基督的福音傳到你們那裡。

如果我們沒有到過你們那裡，現在就自誇得過分了；但事實上，我們早就把基督的福音傳到你們那裡了。

我們並不是越過了範圍，好像從沒伸展到你們那裏去的；不，因為到傳基督的福音上、是我們最先到達你們那裏的。

的確，我們沒有過於擴張自己，好像達不到你們那裡，實際上我們帶著基督的福音已經來了，甚至遠到你們那裡。

我非逾乎量如不及爾者然、蓋我宣基督福音已及乎爾、

蓋余治爾、不逾乎分、乃傳基督福音及爾焉、

我儕已及於爾、已至爾處、傳基督之福音、則不可謂我儕過分逾量、

吾儕之於爾等實無鞭長莫及之勢、蓋吾儕已以基督福音庇覆爾等矣。

We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ.

I am not going too far in my bragging. I would be going too far if I hadn’t come to where you live. But I did get there with the good news about Christ.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

For we are not overextending ourselves( as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;

For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.

For we stretch not ourselves beyond[ our measure], as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in[ preaching] the gospel of Christ:

For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ.

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,

For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.

But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.

And this is the message I proclaim— that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.

Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn’t it because of my work that you belong to the Lord?Even if others think I am not an apostle, I certainly am to you. You yourselves are proof that I am the Lord’s apostle.

that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.

When I came to the city of Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord opened a door of opportunity for me.

Now all glory to God, who is able to make you strong, just as my Good News says. This message about Jesus Christ has revealed his plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes— the Jew first and also the Gentile.

This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. It began

But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus— the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good Newsbut is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you.

Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.

which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.

Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others, who need to bring you letters of recommendation, or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not!The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you.Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This“ letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.

After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.