Ephesians 5:8
For you were before darkness, but now you are light in our Lord. As the sons of light, then, so walk.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
In Context
7Be not, therefore, participators with them.
9For the fruits of the light are in all goodness and rectitude and truth.
Cross References
Luke 1:79To illumine those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. And to direct our feet into the way of peace.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:4-21
Preservatives from Impurity; Cautions and Admonitions. ( a. d. 61.) 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things… Read the whole commentary →