Start with what is immediately around the verse
- Read the paragraph or scene before and after it.
- Identify who is speaking and who is being addressed.
- Notice connecting words such as therefore, but, because, and for.
- Ask whether the text is narrative, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, a letter, or another form.
Then widen the frame
Check the purpose of the chapter and book before moving to distant cross-references. Compare translations when wording is difficult, but do not treat a translation difference as proof of a preferred interpretation by itself.
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