but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light.

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;

Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,

because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world.