14 for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

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

Consistency in the Christian Life

15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— 16 making the most of the time,[b](D) because the days are evil.

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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.
  2. Ephesians 5:16 Lit buying back the time

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