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NASB | Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 3:16 Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind--permeating every aspect of your being] as you teach [spiritual things] and admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. |
Bible Question: I have recently begun memorizing SUMMARIES of Bible chapters (along with my individual verse memorizations). For example, I am currently memorizing the book of John in this way: Chapter One: The Deity of Christ, The Witness John, The Word Made Flesh, The Testimony of John, Jesus Public Ministry, First Converts. Chapter Two: Miracle at Cana, The First Passover, etc. I have found this really helps me with context and with being able to quickly locate particular verses. Being new in Christ, I just wanted to share this with other new Christians. I'm sure my more spiritually mature brethren have been using this technique for a long time. Any other Bible study tips any of you have would be helpful! |
Bible Answer: I think that sounds like a great idea. I have never used it. I might try it out. I personally do something that I know not everyone can do or needs to do. I memorize entire books word for word, in KJV. I get so much revelation by doing this that I have become quite addicted to it. I doubt I will be able to finish the Bible in my lifetime but I will have lots of fun trying. I admit I do skip genealogies and have not attempted books like Leviticus. My goal is to memorize the New Testament first. I began with the epistles of Paul and my first book was Ephesians. It was an easy goal and packed with powerful verses. I am working on Revelation, Matthew, John, and Romans currently. Only I don't memorize verse numbers. If memorize the chapters only. I can remember when a chapter changes, but not each verse and to do so interferes with the revelation, at least for me it does so I focus on the words and thoughts and not on the divisions. I would only suggest that such an outline memorization could hurt if the outline heading ends up causing an interpretation or application or limitation not suggested by the text bur by someones opinion of the text. I have seen many outlines that annoyed me becuase of the flagrant denominational slant suggesting a chapter of part of a chapter had to do with something it did not in my opinion. In which case it would be better to memorize the text first then come up with your own outline based on what you think it means. That outline could change of course as you get more light but at least you are not tainting your mind to think in terms of something that is not there. For example you could memorize an outline about Romans 7 as "The christian's struggle with the flesh" whereas I would rather memorize it as "the struggle with the flesh while trying to obey the law" two entirely different meanings as to what the passage is about. May God Bless you As You Memorize His Word, His Word is ALIVE and POWERFUL. |
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