The second matter is even more important, namely, that this word therefore is a conjunction which leads us on, and points us to the life we are to live in the light of the doctrines we have already considered. You will find—and this is a general principle—that in all the New Testament Epistles at a point corresponding to this, you generally have this word ‘therefore’. They invariably start with the fundamental doctrines. Then having done so they say ‘Therefore’—in the light of this, because of this