Ephesians 5:6-14

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Light versus Darkness

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath^(A) is coming on the disobedient^[a] because of these things. ⁷Therefore, do not become their partners. ⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light^(B) in the Lord. Walk as children of light^(C)— ⁹for the fruit of the light^[b] consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth^(D)— ¹⁰testing^(E) what is pleasing^(F) to the Lord. ¹¹Don’t participate in the fruitless^(G) works of darkness, but instead expose them. ¹²For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. ¹³Everything exposed by the light is made visible,^(H) ¹⁴for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper,^(I) and rise up from the dead,^(J)
and Christ will shine on you.^(K)

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Footnotes

5:6 Lit sons of disobedience
5:9 Other mss read fruit of the Spirit

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