not boasting beyond the limits in the labors of others, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you according to our sphere [of influence],

As winds and clouds and rains are most evident [objects], so is he that boasts of a false gift.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as though our authority did not reach to you, for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;

And to the one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace having been given to us, [let us use them]: whether prophecy, [let us prophecy] according to the proportion of faith;

And so eagerly striving to evangelize not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon the foundation of another,

But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the free gift of Christ.

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and My compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]; for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed [they have]: "Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."