Ephesians 5:8-14

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Ephesians 5:8-14

8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
10Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.
14So it is said:
“Wake up, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
— Ephesians 5:8-14

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