Don’t get drunk on wine, which leads to dissipation
but
be filled up by the Spirit
addressing each other with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing and playing to the Lord with all your heart
giving thanks always for everything
to God the Father
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
submitting to one another in reverence for Christ
wives to husbands as to the Lord
the husband is the head of the wife
Christ is the head of the church
being himself the Savior of the body
because
just as
(This is my own rendering of this passage, laid out in such a way as to show the development of this one, long, classically Pauline run-on sentence. Most English translations chop the sentence up; in particular, they chop it at verse 22 and insert a heading on the order of “Wives and Husbands,” making it appear that Paul is ending one section and starting a whole new thought. In actual fact, he’s still in mid-flight—verse 22 doesn’t even contain a participle, let alone an imperative verb.)
3 comments:
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A good verse (and break down of it) to start the day.
Excellent!
Thanks much.
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