Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great light; And on those who were dwelling in the land of the shadows of death Light has dawned.

"To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, And to guide our feet into the paths of peace."