to be embedded, completing the letter’s work. The paraenesis develops the theme of sanctification by giving specific moral instructions, especially important for Gentile converts, then as now, since they have not been brought up by Torah and may not even recognize in religious conversion a need for moral conversion (Malherbe 2000: 133). Paul and Silas doubtless carried with them a copy of the letter from the Jerusalem Council that established the minimum standards of the sanctified life, making clear