They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.
For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.
And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.
Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.
For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye encompass the sea and the land to make one proselyte, and when it happens, ye make him twice more a son of hell than yourselves.
For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.
But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.
Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.
So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?
But to be zealous of is always good in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.