1 I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! 2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. 3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. 5 I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles." 6 I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.
"Do you take this man, forsaking all others, to be your husband." We've all heard words like this at nearly every wedding that we have ever attended. Vows taken by the bride to remain true to the one that they are uniting with. Words that are meant to last for a lifetime.
As we; the bride of Christ, look at our relationship with Jesus; the bridegroom, are we willing to take him, forsaking all others, no matter what? There are some who will use their cunning to lead us astray from those vows. Others will try to steer our devotion to others. Still others will try to cause us to betray our commitment to Christ by belittling the ones who introduced us to Him.
Remember that day you took your vow? Remember when you said yes to Jesus? Hang on to that promise, hang on to that devotion. Replacing him with anything or anyone else would be foolishness.
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