For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation which befell us in Asia; that we were exceedingly weighed down beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For, according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord;

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,

so as to proclaim the Gospel in the regions beyond you, not to glory in another's limit in the things made ready to our hand.