15. not boasting beyond limits in the labors of others, but having hope that as your faith is growing to be enlarged greatly by you according to our assignment,
16. so that we may proclaim the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast in the things accomplished in the area assigned to someone else.
17. But “the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
18. For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.