the Holy Spirit, the cross, the love of God, the wrath of God, final salvation, reconciliation, eternal life, all come tumbling out of the page. The danger is that we fail to see the logic, and just pick some great truths almost at random and make doctrinal points from them. So how can we get a grasp of the logical flow and main themes of the passage? The theme of building on the foundation of justification is signalled four times by the phrase ‘how much more’ (vv. 9, 10, 15, 17), by the expression