New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 5:7-14

7Therefore do not be 1partakers with them; 8for 2you were formerly 3darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as 4children of Light 9(for 5the fruit of the Light consists in all 6goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 7 8trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 9Do not participate in the unfruitful 10deeds of 11darkness, but instead even 12 13expose them; 12for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13But all things become visible 14when they are 15exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. 14For this reason 16it says, “17Awake, sleeper, And arise from 18the dead, And Christ 19will shine on you.”

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Notes

1. Ephesians 5:7 Eph 3:6 ↩
2. Ephesians 5:8 Eph 2:2 ↩
3. Ephesians 5:8 Acts 26:18; Col 1:12f ↩
4. Ephesians 5:8 John 12:36; Rom 13:12 ↩
5. Ephesians 5:9 Gal 5:22 ↩
6. Ephesians 5:9 Rom 15:14 ↩
7. Ephesians 5:10 Lit proving what ↩
8. Ephesians 5:10 Rom 12:2 ↩
9. Ephesians 5:11 1 Cor 5:9; 2 Cor 6:14 ↩
10. Ephesians 5:11 Rom 13:12 ↩
11. Ephesians 5:11 Acts 26:18; Col 1:12f ↩
12. Ephesians 5:11 Or reprove ↩
13. Ephesians 5:11 1 Tim 5:20 ↩
14. Ephesians 5:13 John 3:20f ↩
15. Ephesians 5:13 Or reproved ↩
16. Ephesians 5:14 Or He ↩
17. Ephesians 5:14 Is 26:19; 51:17; 52:1; 60:1; Rom 13:11 ↩
18. Ephesians 5:14 Eph 2:1 ↩
19. Ephesians 5:14 Luke 1:78f ↩

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