Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

For I Do Not Commend Myself Or Compare Myself To Others

¹² For we do not dare to class or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they— measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves— do not understand^[a].

And I Do Not Boast In Unmeasured Things Or In The Labors of Others

¹³ And we will not boast in unmeasured^[b] things, but in-relation-to^[c] the measure of ^[d] the standard^[e] which God apportioned to us as a measure: to reach as far as even you. ¹⁴ For we are not, as-if not reaching to you, overextending ourselves. For we arrived even as far as you in connection with the good-news of Christ!— ¹⁵ not boasting in unmeasured things, in labors belonging-to-others, but having the hope, while your faith is growing, that we might be enlarged^[f] in^[g] you in relation to our standard of measure, for an abundance; ¹⁶ that we might announce-the-good-news in the regions beyond^[h] you, not that we might boast in the prepared things in the standard of measure belonging-to-another.

The One The Lord Commends Is The Approved One

¹⁷ But “let the one boasting be boasting in the Lord” [Jer 9:24]. ¹⁸ For not that one commending himself is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.