centuries past. Even if they have sometimes gone in directions that biblical scholars now see need correction, they have also had insights for their own time that add to the wisdom Paul himself shares. Paul’s message that we may trust our trustworthy God is always timely. How we enact that trust in the twenty-first century is the question we must explore in preaching, teaching, and worship. Listening to what Paul had to say about that question in the first century is surprisingly helpful for beginning