⁵ The light shines in the darkness,^(A) and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.^(B)

⁴⁶ I have come into the world as a light,^(A) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁸ For you were once^(A) darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light^(B)

⁵ You are all children of the light^(A) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness

⁵ This is the message we have heard^(A) from him and declare to you: God is light;^(B) in him there is no darkness at all.