Some got up and gave false testimony against him to this effect:

to whom he wrote a letter to this effect:

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.