<p>1:18 <i>What then? In every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed and therein I rejoice, yes and will rejoice</i>- This is a powerful principle; regardless of the motives others have in their work, we should rejoice Christ is preached. And yet so many believers have so little joy at the witness of others to Christ because of their hangups about those who are doing the preaching work. The 'believers' out to make trouble for Paul were only 'pretending' which suggests they were false brethren, those who faked conversion in order to enter the early Christian communities and derail them (Gal. 2:4). But despite that, Paul still rejoices that the Lord Jesus was getting at least some publicity; he clearly believed that no publicity is bad publicity, and my own ministry led me to the same conclusion. These false brethren were Judaists, and the same word translated &quot;pretence&quot; is used of orthodox Jews in Lk. 20:47 and Jn. 15:22.</p>