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Wednesday Bible Study: The Banalities

Chapter 11, starting with verse 9, is a weak echo of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, although as I say it's not clear that Paul ever read Matthew. I don't have much to say about it, except that it's largely unexceptionable.

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Chapter 11, starting with verse 9, is a weak echo of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, although as I say it's not clear that Paul ever read Matthew.

I don't have much to say about it, except that it's largely unexceptionable.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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Chapter 11, starting with verse 9, is a weak echo of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, although as I say it's not clear that Paul ever read Matthew. I don't have much to say about it, except that it's largely unexceptionable. 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

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  • 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  • Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
  • Humble Service in the Body of Christ 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you:
  • Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

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This is the kind of banal dreck that any two-bit preacher might spout. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.

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