Ephesians 5:8-14
Revised Standard Version
8 for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret; 13 but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. 14 Therefore it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give you light.”
Ephesians 5:8-14
American Standard Version
8 for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even [a]reprove them; 12 for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. 13 But all things when they are [b]reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, [c]Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
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- Ephesians 5:11 Or, convict
- Ephesians 5:13 Or, convicted
- Ephesians 5:14 (?). Compare 1 Tim. 3:16.
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