Village Bible Church - Naperville

And that word can mean distorting. It can also mean watering down. This too was a common practice in those days. Winemakers would water down their wine just enough so that it had enough potency so that they wouldn't lose a customer, but they wouldn't really give people their money's worth for what they were paying for. Again, very common practice. And it's the same word the word that is used for that diluting down of the wine is the same word that Paul uses for distorting the message. Paul says, we don't distort the message. We don't water it down. We give the straight up uncut truth of God's word.