One of the more difficult things to learn in writing is the use of a thesis statement. A thesis statement answers the question, “What are you trying to prove?” In other words, “What is the point of your paper?” A good paper states its thesis, its purpose, the whole reason for the paper at the outset. This way the reader knows where things are headed. Over the centuries, theologians have called the two verses before us the thesis statement of Paul's letter to the Romans. While we can’t hold Paul to the writing formats of our own day, we can certainly appeal to the idea of a thesis statement and appreciate that most of what Paul writes in the chapters that follow, in one way or another, stem from these two short verses.

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