This is the one-hundred-fifty-second lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, they can get more info and sign up to receive these essays via email here.
As a practical matter, our study of the Bible typically comes down to peering intently into a specific passage. So, bearing in mind the importance of the whole-book context and meaning, how then do we plunge into a passage to understand and apply?
What we typically mean by a “passage” is a segment of a biblical book that holds together in some meaningful way. That may be just two or three verses, or a chapter or two. The chapter and verse numbers in the Bible we’re all familiar with were not developed for the biblical text until the 13th through the 16th centuries. They’re helpful, but we should not consider them definitive divisions of meaning.
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