Ephesians 5:6-14 - Light Versus Darkness

⁶ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience; ⁷ therefore do not become sharers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord. ⁹ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth. ¹⁰ Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret; ¹³ but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light. ¹⁴ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"