Ephesians 5:8

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Summary

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Ye were

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Song of Songs 2:11

1 Thessalonians 5:5

Bible References

Ye were

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

For our struggle is not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Consider the covenant;
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

The people who walk in darkness

Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know,
In paths they do not know I will guide them.
I will make darkness into light before them
And rugged places into plains.
These are the things I will do,
And I will not leave them undone.”

“For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the Lord will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.

Give glory to the Lord your God,

Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For He rescued us from the

domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of

His beloved Son,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

General references

and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,

‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;