| According to Nanos the reason Paul wrote Romans is most clearly seen in the parenesis of chaps. |
| Terms such as tefillin, hortatory, neologism and parenesis are probably not part of most peoples' usual vocabulary. |
| He compares these examples of gnomic wisdom with Paul's parenesis in Romans 12, pointing out crucial differences between Paul and the Sages. |
| He suggests that Romans is directly geared to its addressees since any kind of parenesis is necessarily that. |
| In Chapter 13 the author of Hebrews goes into extensive parenesis about many different aspects of community life. |
