I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship ¹  from God – given to me for you – in order to complete ²  the word of God,

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom ¹  with their self-imposed worship and false humility ²  achieved by an ³  unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence. ⁴