Teach Us to Number Our Days
Numbering your days is not morbid, it is arithmetic.
Devotionals
Devotionals
Do Not Neglect Meeting Together
The instruction is about attendance, and it is not really about attendance at all.
Forgetting What Is Behind
This is not amnesia, and Paul of all people was not pretending his past had not happened.
Carrying the Burdens of Other People
Bearing other people's weight is presented here as obedience, not as a personality type.
Do Not Lose Heart
He is not denying the decline, he is describing two processes running at the same time.
Comforted So You Can Comfort
This does not explain the suffering, it simply gives the suffering somewhere to go.
Your Labor Is Not in Vain
Paul says this immediately after a long argument about resurrection, and the order matters.
While We Were Still Sinners
The timing is the whole argument, and the timing is the part we keep quietly editing.
More Blessed to Give
This saying survives nowhere in the Gospels, which is part of what makes it interesting.
A New Commandment
The command to love was not new at all, but the measure He attached to it was.