Ephesians 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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  • John 8:12 : 12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you. 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
  • John 12:36 : 36 In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations: 7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
  • Isa 60:19-20 : 19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
  • Isa 2:5 : 5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: 5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. 6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; 8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out. 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him. 11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
  • Ps 74:20 : 20 Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
  • Rom 2:19 : 19 In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:4-5 : 4 What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you. 2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you. 3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
  • 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

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  • 1 Thess 5:4-6
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    4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

    6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Have no part with such men;

  • Col 3:7
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    7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

  • Eph 5:9-17
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    9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

    10 Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

    11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

    12 For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

    13 But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

    14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

    15 Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

    16 Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

  • John 12:35-36
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    35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

    36 In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

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  • 1 John 1:5-7
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    5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

    6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

    7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

    2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

    3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

  • Eph 4:17-18
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

    18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • Rom 13:12-13
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    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

    13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

  • 1 John 2:8
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    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

  • Luke 11:35-36
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    35 So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

    36 If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.

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    6 As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

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    14 You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Col 1:13
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    13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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    12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • John 1:5
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    5 And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

  • Col 4:5
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    5 Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

  • 1 Thess 2:12
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    12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

  • 2 Cor 6:14
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    14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

  • John 3:19
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    19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

  • Eph 2:12
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    12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

  • Matt 5:16
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    16 Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

  • John 11:10
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    10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Isa 9:2
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    2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;