Streetlights

5 songs checked against the passages they lean on. Each one was graded on its own, against what that song does with the text.

How the 5 checks landed

✓ VERIFIED 5

This is a count, not a verdict. We grade songs, one at a time, against what each one does with the text. A tally of those checks describes a catalogue. It is not a judgment of the people who wrote or sang it, and no number here puts anyone on or off The List. Most drift is craft pressure, not deception. Read the proofs, not the arithmetic.

The songs

✓ VERIFIED “Mark 10” Streetlights Mark 10:23-27 Play it freely. This is Mark 10 itself, read word for word in a named translation. The line about all things being possible arrives as the answer to a question about being saved.

✓ The whole chapter, in order, so verse 27 arrives after the rich man’s scene and after the disciples ask who can be saved, instead of standing on its own

⚠ “Word-for-word” here describes the reading, not the translation theory. Streetlights uses it for what is read. Tyndale uses the same phrase for a different thing

✓ VERIFIED “Proverbs 4” Streetlights Proverbs 4:20-27 Play it freely. This is Proverbs 4 itself, read word for word in a named translation. “Guard your heart” arrives with the commands about the mouth, the eyes and the feet still attached.

✓ The whole chapter, in order, so “guard your heart” arrives with the commands about the mouth, the eyes and the feet, instead of standing alone as advice

⚠ “Word-for-word” here describes the reading, not the translation theory. Streetlights uses it for what is read. Tyndale uses the same phrase for a different thing

✓ VERIFIED “Ephesians 6” Streetlights Ephesians 6:10-13 Play it freely. It is Ephesians itself, read word for word in a named translation, so the armor passage arrives where Paul put it, at the end, after everything he said first.

✓ The whole book, in order, so verses 10 to 13 arrive after the household instructions of 6:1-9 rather than as a passage on their own

✓ no cautions: this is the standard

✓ VERIFIED “Romans 8” Streetlights Romans 8:31-39 Play it freely. It is Romans 8 itself, read whole and word for word in a named translation, so the closing questions arrive as Paul asked them, with the answer attached.

✓ The whole chapter, in order, including verse 36's sheep-to-be-slaughtered quotation, which songs drawn from this passage almost never keep

✓ no cautions: this is the standard

✓ VERIFIED “Psalm Chapter 1 (Oh The Joy)” Streetlights Psalm 1:1-6 Play it freely. It is Psalm 1 entire, word for word in a named translation, so what you take in is the chapter and not a favourite line from it.

✓ The whole chapter, word for word, in order, with both ways kept: the tree and the chaff

✓ no cautions: this is the standard