Ephesians 5:8-18

Wycliffe Bible

⁸ For ye were sometime darknesses, but now ye be light in the Lord. Walk ye as the sons of light [Walk as the sons of light].

⁹ For the fruit of light is in all goodness, and rightwiseness, and truth.

¹⁰ And prove ye what thing is well pleasing to God. [Proving what is well pleasing to God.]

¹¹ And do not ye commune to unfruitous works of darknesses; but more rather reprove ye [them].

¹² For what things be done of them in privy, it is foul, yea, to speak.

¹³ And all things that be reproved of the light, be openly showed; for all thing that is showed, is light. [Forsooth all things that be reproved of the light, be made open; forsooth all thing that is made open, is light.]

¹⁴ For which thing he saith, Rise thou that sleepest, and rise up from death, and Christ shall lighten thee.^[a]

¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, see ye, how warily ye shall go; not as unwise men, but as wise men,

¹⁶ again-buying the time, for the days be evil.

¹⁷ Therefore do not ye be made unwise, but understanding which is the will of God [which is the will of the Lord].

¹⁸ And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [in which is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;