I wrote a song about Paul called What did Paul Mean? I sing part of it in his original biblical Greek. I’m sure my pronunciation is awful.
Conversation
I’ve got a question
for you
Daddy
I've been wondering
for thousands
of years
you hurt me
when you wrote those words
down
Daddy
now I'm wondering
if you’d tell me
what you mean
when you said:
Ἢ
οὐκ
οἴδατε
ὅτι
ἄδικοι
[a]θεοῦ βασιλείαν
οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν...
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This channel has some good discussions to help refine historically accurate pronunciation, if you're going for authentic κοινέ.
My fav is πολλοί κλιτοί, ολίγοι εκλεκτοί. Also worth looking up the epitaph of Seikilos—oldest western music we have notes for
m.youtube.com/c/PolymathyLuke
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But language study aside, responding to the text, I find more light in the text of the gospels than the letters of Paul. Jesus broke bread with all people, including prostitutes and criminals and his own betrayer.
There's a reason we use the word "Christlike", less "Paul-like"
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Or if we are to treat with Paul, another way to look is to notice that he's throwing all "sins of the body" together, without much distinction. Straight sex. Gay sex. Lawsuits. Eating meat. All of the body not the spirit. It's motion toward total devotion
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Yet even in that, he allows that all is permitted; it's rather a question of whether each moves one closer to God, or takes mastery over you in itself
biblehub.com/interlinear/1_