¹⁶ the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind;

² And he cried ^[a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, ^(A)“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and ^(B)has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and ^(C)a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

⁵ You are all ^(A)sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ^6 (B)Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but ^(C)let us watch and be ^[a]sober. ⁷ For ^(D)those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk ^(E)are drunk at night.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are ^(A)the enemies of the cross of Christ: ^19 (B)whose end is destruction, ^(C)whose god is their belly, and ^(D)whose glory is in their shame—^(E)who set their mind on earthly things.

⁷ Therefore do not be ^(A)partakers with them.

Walk in Light

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are ^(B)light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for ^(C)the fruit of the ^[a]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), ^10 (D)finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹ And have ^(E)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather ^[b]expose them.

¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the ^(A)blindness of their heart; ^19 (B)who, being past feeling, ^(C)have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

^2 (A)in which you once walked according to the ^[a]course of this world, according to ^(B)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in ^(C)the sons of disobedience, ^3 (D)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in ^(E)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and ^(F)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, ^(A)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For ^(B)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been ^(C)done in God.”