'Rule' in the Bible

It is not that we are trying to rule over your faith, but rather to work with you for your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

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,

to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.