indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,