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Becky McGregor
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First Family Church
5 years ago

...be filled by the Spirit
Note the command.
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Ephesians 5:18The Bible Knowledge Commentary
. Going from the general to the specific, Paul explained how wisdom, as an intellectual and spiritual capacity, works out in one’s conduct. Verse 18 includes a negative command and a positive one. The negative is to abstain from getting drunk on wine with which there is incorrigibility. The word asōtia is translated debauchery (NIV, RSV), “excess” (KJV), “riot” (ASV), and “dissipation” (NASB). All these give the idea of profligate or licentious living that is wasteful. In this verse the literal
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