Ephesians 5:8

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Summary

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Ye were

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Song of Songs 2:11

1 Thessalonians 5:5

Bible References

Ye were

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

General references

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.