Ephesians 5:8

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Ephesians 5:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

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Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

Ephesians 2:12

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Psalms 74:20

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 60:2

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

Matthew 4:16

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Acts 17:30

Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Romans 2:19

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 John 2:8

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

Isaiah 42:6

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 49:6

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:9

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Isaiah 60:19

No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.

John 1:4

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 1:5

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:9

The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

John 8:12

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 12:46

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

1 John 2:9

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Isaiah 2:5

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

John 12:36

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

Galatians 5:25

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.