Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

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

⁷ Be not ye, therefore, partakers with them.

⁸ For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

⁹ (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹⁰ approving what is well pleasing unto the Lord.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

¹² For it is a shame even to speak of those things which they do in secret.

¹³ But all these things when they are reproved by the light are made manifest, for the light is that which manifests everything.

¹⁴ Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding of what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking among yourselves with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and praising the Lord in your hearts,

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things unto the God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,