A very important item under "Biblical search" is not just "What is the overall focus of this passage?" but the question, "What does this passage actually say?" Context as well as content will inform the answer.

I have often noticed that preachers (from occasional pulpiteers to Bishops!) will use a passage as a jump-off point for their own hobby-horse, rather than an opportunity to open up to the congregation what God now says through his Word.

We need to switch off our previous readings and read a passage as if for the first time, trying to enter into the mindset of its writer and original hearers/readers.

This is where it is useful to have access to the original languages, but if we do not have those skills, then we need to have access to a variety of translations.

The first thing to do is to read the passage, then read it again, and again, and again, so that we hear what it is actually saying, and not what other people have told us it says, or what they have said about it, or what we think it ought to be saying.