Paul for Everyone Quotes

“I know our Lord told us', he said, 'to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. But, being busy men, some of us find it advisable to specialize.' No”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“It is all too easy, in sorting out our own lives and finding our own way forward as Christians, to make things harder, not easier, for those around us.”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“The point of love, genuine Christian love, what the New Testament writers call agape (though some Greek writers used this word, too, in a wider sense like the English 'love'), was that it meant copying the self-giving love of Jesus himself. This love is included in the command to 'put on' Jesus, as in verse 14. And in that self-giving love there is no room for immorality, particularly for cheating in marriage, your own or someone else's - however much it tries to disguise itself as 'love'.”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“Christians today need urgently to consider what it means both that God wants his world to be governed under the rule of appropriate law and that Jesus is already installed as the supreme Lord of heaven and earth. ROMANS”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“This passage seems to indicate that, though when someone isn't sorry there is no chance of full reconciliation, it is not only possible but actually commanded that we should rid ourselves of any desire for revenge.”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“Revenge is ruled out. Instead, we are to find creative, surprising new ways of dealing with people who hurt us. This is a huge challenge.”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16

“Some people imagine God to be always severe, always cross, always ready to find fault. Such people urgently need to discover just how kind and gracious God has been in Jesus the Messiah, and how this grace is theirs for the asking. But other people sometimes imagine that God is simply kind and generous in a sense which would rule out his ever rebuking or warning anyone about anything. Such people urgently need to discover just how much God hates evil in all its destructive and damaging ways, and how firmly he confronts, and ultimately rejects, those who persist in perpetrating it. The Roman Christians needed to learn this double lesson in the very first Christian generation. Many Christians and churches still need to learn it today. ROMANS”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans Part 2: Chapters 9-16