Some, however, may think they lack wisdom so that they do not know how to respond to persecution. What should they say when they are challenged about their faith? How should they respond to being insulted and dragged into court? Such need only ask from God, and such wisdom will be given. God is not stingy with His gifts. He is the One who gives to all men generously, spontaneously, openly (Gr. aplos), the One who gives without reproaching His children for their poverty and their mistakes. If they
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