For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.

As for Titus, he is my partner and comrade in the work for you, while these brothers of ours, the representatives of the churches, will bring glory to Christ.

I am not going too far in my boasting, and actually boasting of other men's labors, but I am cherishing the hope that your faith may so continue to grow that through you my work within my sphere may be so enlarged as to run over,

so that I can preach the good news in the regions beyond you, without boasting in another man's sphere of work already done by him.