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This volume of the Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament contains commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, and 1 Thessalonians. Galatians was written in the heat of controversy. Paul believed the Gospel to be under a deadly attack that would destroy the churches he had founded and ultimately destroy the Gospel itself. He used all the arguments at his command to counteract that...

the condition he or she seeks for others; Rom. 14:19 therefore urges Christians to pursue what makes for peace and edification. The Spirit has empowered; therefore the virtues are the fruit of the Spirit. Peace is expressed in three modes in the second triad: patience, kindness, goodness (5:22). Patience is the quality of putting up with those who try to provoke you (of God, Rom. 2:4; 9:22; of humans, 2 Cor. 6:6; 1 Thess. 5:14). Kindness is friendliness based on God’s friendliness to sinners (cf.
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