1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 may comprise one of the

shortest paragraphs of the Bible, yet in just a few

verses our whole outlook on life can be transformed.

It’s no accident they appear near the end of 1

Thessalonians. Do a quick glance over Paul’s letters

in your Bible and you will notice that near the end of

all his letters, just as he begins to run out of

parchment he fires off what Jon Courson explains

that a proverb is,

“a pithy statement that packs a powerful punch”