But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself ¹  so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed ²  the gospel of God to you free of charge?

Now I want to make clear for you, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,