⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient. ⁷ Therefore do not become sharers with them. ⁸ There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself. ⁹ Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth-- ¹⁰ and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them; ¹² for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of. ¹³ But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light. ¹⁴ For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you."