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Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul wrote the letters while in prison facing possible death, but their passion and energy are undimmed. They reveal Paul’s longing to see young churches grow in faith and understanding, rooted in Jesus himself, and to see this faith worked out in practice—in one case, through the rehabilitation of a runaway slave. Wright’s stimulating comments are combined with his own translation of the Bible...

learn how to state the truth without lapsing into rudeness or sneering. The truth of the God of love can’t be commended by loveless speech. The main result, though, is that by this process of maturity we shall become truly what we already are in principle: members of the Messiah’s body (verses 15–16). Paul has said this several times already in this letter, but here he develops it in two ways in particular. First, he envisages this body as growing up ‘into Christ, who is the head’. This seems an
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