16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
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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. …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)In these verses observe, I. The apostle refuses to justify himself, or to act by such rules as the false apostles did, 2 Cor. 10:12. He plainly intimates that they took a wrong method to commend themselves, in measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves , which was not wise . They were pleased, and did pride themselves, in their own attainments, and never consider…
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