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2 Corinthians 10:15-16

2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 Corinthians 10:15 lands beyond. Paul’s aim is to plant churches in areas where the gospel has never been proclaimed (see Romans 10:14). These false teachers try to change the gospel in places where it has already been established (another’s area).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 15. _NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT_ OUR _MEASURE_] We speak only of the work which God has done by us; for we have never attempted to enter into other men's labours, and we study to convert tho...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE - There is here probably an allusion to the false teachers at Corinth. They had come after Paul had been there, and had entered into his labors. When he had...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OF. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. OTHER MEN'S, Greek. _attotrios._ App-124. FAITH. Greek. _pistil._ App-150. ENLARGED. magnified. Greek. _megatuno._ See Acts 5:13. BY. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. ABUND...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _not boasting of things without our measure_ The Apostle now repeats what he has before said in 2 Corinthians 10:13, but directs his remarks more pointedly against the false teachers by adding - _in o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    15, 16. ΟΥ̓Κ ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἌΜΕΤΡΑ ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΙ … ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἝΤΟΙΜΑ ΚΑΥΧΉΣΑΣΘΑΙ. A long and rather obscure sentence, which it is more simple to connect with 2 Corinthians 10:14 than with 2 Corinthians 10:13. There...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out. Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely, because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _SEEKING TO BE APPROVED OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15-18:_ Paul did not brag about the work others had done in the kingdom. He did not try to take credit for their work. His desire was that these brethre...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΜΕΤΡΑ (G265) _n. pl. adv._ неумеренно (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:13). ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:8). άλλότρος

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 2038 THE FAITHFUL MINISTER’S DESIRES 2 Corinthians 10:15. _Having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the Gospe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOT BOASTING, &C.— That is, "Not intermeddling, or assuming to myself an authority to meddle, or any honour for doing so." St. Paul here visibly taxes the false Apostle for coming into a church conver...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, Not bo...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinthi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NOT BOASTING, etc.] RV 'not glorying beyond _our_ measure, _that is,_ in other men's labours; but having hope that as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto _f...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE... — The words are not merely defensive. He presses home the charge of intrusion. They, not he, were finding ground for their boasts in other men’s labours....

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος ε...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    οὐκ εἰς τὰ ἄμετρα κ. τ. λ.: _not glorying beyond our measure_ (the argument is resumed from 2 Corinthians 10:13), _that is, in other men's labours_. This he steadily avoided (_cf._ Romans 15:20); even...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 15 He did not have to build on other men's labors to find work. In fact, he could, and had to, confine his labors to them until they grew. Their lack of growth kept him from furthering the gospe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Not boasting of things (m) without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    In these three following Chapter s, St. Paul, for the common good of those whom he had converted, and to obviate the prejudice raised by his adversaries against his person and preaching, is forced to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CONCERNING THE COLLECTION_ ‘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: not boasting o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._In the labors of others. _He now reproves more freely the false Apostles, who, while they had put forth their hand in the reaping of another man’s harvest, had the audacity at the same time to rev...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE,.... The apostle here asserts what he had done before, 2 Corinthians 10:13 with a view to explain it, as he does, saying, THAT IS OF OTHER MEN'S LABOURS; wh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Not boasting of things without _our_ measure, _that is_, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, Ver....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _We stretch not_, &c. In preaching at Corinth, we do not, like the false teacher, go out of our line, as _not reaching to you; but we are come_ even _as far as you_ By a gradual, regular process, havi...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ENLARGED; in respect to our field of labor. BY YOU; by your cooperation. ACCORDING TO OUR RULE; according to the field assigned us by God, which has lain without the field of other men's labors. An...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, THAT IS, OF OTHER MEN'S LABORS, BUT HAVING HOPE, WHEN YOUR FAITH IS INCREASED, THAT WE SHALL BE ENLARGED BY YOU ACCORDING TO OUR RULE ABUNDANTLY,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ENLARGED BY YOU: Or, magnified in you...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    So that although we have boasted of you, we have not boasted OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE; that is, of things that are not, or (as the apostle expounds himself) of things that were not done by him bu...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI The primacy of knowledge the apostle shows to those capable of reflection, in writing to those Greeks of Corinth, in the following terms: "But having hope, when...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 10:15 not G3756 boasting G2744 (G5740) beyond G1519 measure G280 in G1722 mens G245 labors G2

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not to you, for we came even as far as to you in the gospel of Christ, not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, bu...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 10:15. NOT GLORYING... IN OTHER MEN'S LABOURS, BUT HAVING HOPE THAT, AS YOUR FAITH GROWETH, WE SHALL BE MAGNIFIED IN YOU... UNTO FURTHER ABUNDANCE ‘be encouraged by our success with you...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    IN OTHER MEN'S LABOURS (εν αλλοτριοις κοποις). Αλλοτριος means belonging to another as in Luke 16:12. Paul founded the church in Corinth.AS YOUR FAITH GROWETH (αυξανομενης της πιστεως). Genitive...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own inf...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SO WE DO NOT BOAST. Paul's work was to _lay foundations._ He did not intrude on the work of the other apostles. See Romans 15:20 and note. It may be that the false teachers accused Paul of intruding o...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him o...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Without our measure._ The provinces not assigned us by God. This is again a blow aimed at the false apostles, who were in the habit of boasting, groundlessly of the many regions they had visited and...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 10:13; Romans 15:20...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Be enlarged by you - according to our rule abundantly [ε ν υ μ ι ν μ ε γ α λ υ ν θ η ν α ι - ε ι ς π ε ρ ι σ σ ε ι α ν]. Paul means that, as the faith of the Corinthians increases, he hopes that his a...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Having hope, now your faith is increased — So that you can the better spare us. To be enlarged by you abundantly — That is, enabled by you to go still further....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here the apostle tells the Corinthians, that he would not boast of other men's labours, nor pretend any title to those Christians at Corinth, nor any where else, whom others had converted, as the fals...

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