Ephesians 5:8

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What does Ephesians 5:8 mean?

Ephesians 5:8 in the original Greek

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Cross references for Ephesians 5:8

• John 8:12

  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

• 1 John 1:7

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

• John 12:46

  I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

• Acts 26:18

  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

• Colossians 1:13

  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

• 1 Peter 2:9-11

  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

• Isaiah 42:6-7

  I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

• Ephesians 4:18

  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

• John 12:36

  While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

• Isaiah 9:2

  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

• Ephesians 2:2

  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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Context

• Ephesians 5:7

  Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

• Ephesians 5:8

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

• Ephesians 5:9

  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

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