12 For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13 Everything exposed by the light is made clear,(A) 14 for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper,(B) and rise up from the dead,(C)
and the Messiah will shine on you.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:14 This poem may have been an early Christian hymn based on several passages in Isaiah; Is 9:2; 26:19; 40:1; 51:17; 52:1; 60:1.

12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light(A) becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 14 This is why it is said:

“Wake up, sleeper,(B)
    rise from the dead,(C)
    and Christ will shine on you.”(D)

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