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Following that filling is a series of consequences or results. Notice that these results are all participles. They are not commands as some translation have made them out to be. They are participles – the result of the one command – “be filled”.

Ephesians 5:21 “be subject” is also not a command (imperative), but a participle in a series of participles.

This is my favorite part. I’ve never thought or believed that wives being told to submit was a “command.”
A command, for example would be the first or second greatest commandments. Those are actual commands.