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“Be thankful” (Colossians 3:15). This is a recurring exhortation in the letters of the apostle Paul. No other New Testament writer gives such a sustained emphasis on thanksgiving—and yet, major modern studies of Paul fail to wrestle with it. David Pao aims to rehabilitate this theme by showing how, for Paul, thanksgiving is grounded in the covenantal traditions of salvation history. He states...

‘Be thankful’ (Col. 3:15) is a recurring plea of the apostle Paul. This Pauline emphasis on thanksgiving can be felt through a brief glance at the use of related vocabularies in the New Testament. The verb eucharisteō and its cognate noun and adjective, together with charis, when it acquires the meaning of thanksgiving, appear sixty-two times in the New Testament. More than three-quarters of such occurrences appear in the Pauline corpus.1 The rest appear
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