So that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else's territory.
NIV
So that [we may even] preach the Gospel in lands [lying] beyond you, without making a boast of work already done in another [man's] sphere of activity [before we came on the scene].
AMP
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
KJV
For it is not those who commend themselves who are approved, but those whom the Lord commends.
NIV
For [it is] not [the man] who praises and commends himself who is approved and accepted, but [it is the person] whom the Lord accredits and commends.
AMP
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
KJV
Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.
NIV
So now finish doing it, that your [enthusiastic] readiness in desiring it may be equalled by your completion of it according to your ability and means.
AMP
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
KJV
This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
NIV
For the service that the ministering of this fund renders does not only fully supply what is lacking to the saints (God's people), but it also overflows in many [cries of] thanksgiving to God.
AMP
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
KJV
It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
NIV
So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds.
AMP
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
KJV
Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
NIV
Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the [very] sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead.
AMP
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
KJV
For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
NIV
For if the [eager] readiness to give is there, then it is acceptable and welcomed in proportion to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
AMP
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
KJV
Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, people will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
NIV
Because at [your] standing of the test of this ministry, they will glorify God for your loyalty and obedience to the Gospel of Christ which you confess, as well as for your generous-hearted liberality to them and to all [the other needy ones].
AMP
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
KJV
