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 being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shades of death, upon them hath the light shined.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory will be seen upon thee.

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness.

The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen.

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shades of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness,

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

General references

And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

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