for (A)at one time you were (B)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (C)Walk as children of light (for (D)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and (E)try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 (F)Take no part in the (G)unfruitful (H)works of darkness, but instead (I)expose them. 12 For (J)it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when (K)anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

(L)“Awake, O sleeper,
    and (M)arise from the dead,
and (N)Christ will shine on you.”

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For you were once darkness, but now you are light(A) in the Lord. Walk as children of light(B) for the fruit of the light[a] consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth(C) 10 testing(D) what is pleasing(E) to the Lord. 11 Don’t participate in the fruitless(F) works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13 Everything exposed by the light is made visible,(G) 14 for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:

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

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Footnotes

  1. 5:9 Other mss read fruit of the Spirit