For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

I decided that I would not visit you again in grief;

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.