Ephesians 5:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

Common English Bible

⁸ You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, so live your life as children of light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

Ephesians 5:8 Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Have respect unto the covenant: For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Isaiah 2:5

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:6

yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:9

saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

Isaiah 9:2

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

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.

Matthew 3:8

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Matthew 4:16

The people which sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.

Luke 1:79

To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

John 1:9

There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

John 12:36

While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.

John 12:46

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

John 8:12

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

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

Acts 26:18

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

Romans 1:21

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Romans 13:12

The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Romans 2:19

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Galatians 5:25

If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

Ephesians 2:2

wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

Ephesians 6:12

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

Colossians 1:13

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

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 his Son cleanseth us from all sin.