Rejoice always.
These brief, hammer-blow admonitions carry the full authority of apostolic power and have been greatly honored and appreciated in all generations since they appeared.  Barclay spoke of them as "a chain of jewels of good advice."[29] Moffatt declared that "To comment adequately upon these diamond drops would be to outline a history of the Christian experience in its highest levels."[30] Here in bas-relief, chiseled into the granite face of history, are these mighty virtues of the "new man" in Christ Jesus, without whom the world would never have survived as long as it has.