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

Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence.

The people going in darkness saw a great light: they dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them.

I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gloom the nations: and Jehovah shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.

The people sitting in darkness saw a great light; and to them sitting in the room and shadow of death, light has sprung up to them.

To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.

Therefore truly, God having overlooked the times of ignorance, now announces to all men everywhere to repent:

To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,

Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines.

General references

And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind;

For behold, the winter passed. away, the rain glided away; it went for itself.

Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.