Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

⁸ for ye were once darkness, but 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 agreeable to the Lord;

¹¹ and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],

¹² for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.

¹³ But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

¹⁴ Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁵ See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;

²⁰ giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,