⁵ The light shines in the darkness,^(A) and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.^(B)

⁸ For you were once^(A) darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light^(B)

¹² and giving joyful thanks to the Father,^(A) who has qualified you^[a] to share in the inheritance^(B) of his holy people in the kingdom of light.^(C)

⁵ You are all children of the light^(A) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

⁹ But you are a chosen people,^(A) a royal priesthood,^(B) a holy nation,^(C) God’s special possession,^(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.^(E)