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The so-called ethical sections of Paul's letters are not loosely tacked on to the weightier theological parts, as concessions to the practical needs of the less than ideal Christians in his congregations. Rather Paul's ethical admonitions are closely and significantly related to his preaching of the gospel, and thus to his fundamental theological convictions. What matters most, he insists, is faith enacted in love (Gal 5:6), and by this he means, in the present life of the believer and of the believing community. Virtually all of his concrete moral instructions are intended to specify the forms that faith's enactment in love should take in specific cases.

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