For you were once darkness, but now you are light(A) in the Lord. Walk as children of light(B) for the fruit of the light[a] consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth(C) 10 testing(D) what is pleasing(E) to the Lord. 11 Don’t participate in the fruitless(F) works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13 Everything exposed by the light is made visible,(G) 14 for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper,(H) and rise up from the dead,(I)
and Christ will shine on you.(J)

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  1. 5:9 Other mss read fruit of the Spirit

For you were once(A) darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light(B) (for the fruit(C) of the light consists in all goodness,(D) righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord.(E) 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,(F) but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light(G) becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 14 This is why it is said:

“Wake up, sleeper,(H)
    rise from the dead,(I)
    and Christ will shine on you.”(J)

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15 so that you may be blameless(A) and pure,(B) children of God who are faultless(C) in a crooked(D) and perverted(E) generation,(F) among whom you shine like stars in the world,

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15 so that you may become blameless(A) and pure, “children of God(B) without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a](C) Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky

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  1. Philippians 2:15 Deut. 32:5

12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[a] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.(A) 13 He has rescued(B) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom(C) of the Son(D) he loves.(E) 14 In him we have redemption,[b] the forgiveness of sins.

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  1. 1:12 Other mss read us
  2. 1:14 Other mss add through his blood

12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father,(A) who has qualified you[a] to share in the inheritance(B) of his holy people in the kingdom of light.(C) 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness(D) and brought us into the kingdom(E) of the Son he loves,(F) 14 in whom we have redemption,(G) the forgiveness of sins.(H)

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  1. Colossians 1:12 Some manuscripts us

For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.(A)

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You are all children of the light(A) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

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