New Revised Standard Version
For we were not overstepping our limits when we reached you; we were the first to come all the way to you with the good news of Christ.

Contemporary English Version
We are not bragging more than we should. After all, we did bring the message about Christ to you.

New American Bible
For we are not overreaching ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we indeed first came to you with the gospel of Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

we stretch not.

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you? . . .

Romans 15:18,19 For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, . . .

1 Corinthians 2:10 But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 3:5,10 The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as the Lord hath given. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:15 For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

1 Corinthians 9:1,2 Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? . . .

the gospel.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Acts 20:24 But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the Greek.

Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity;

Galatians 1:6-8 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. . . .

Colossians 1:5 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

1 Timothy 1:11 Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which hath been committed to my trust.