Ephesians 5:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ For once you were darkness, but now in union with the Lord you are light. 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

Look upon the covenant— for haunts of violence fill the dark places of earth.

Isaiah 2:5

Come house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of Adonai.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:6

So He says, “It is too trifling a thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give You as a light for the nations, that You should be My salvation to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out!’ to those in darkness, ‘Be shown!’ Along the roads they will graze— their pasture will be on all the barren heights.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears Adonai? Who hears the voice of His servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of Adonai and lean on his God.

Isaiah 9:2

You will multiply the nation. You will increase the joy. They will rejoice before You like the joy in the harvest, as they revel when they divide spoil.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Adonai your God, before it grows dark, and before your feet stumble on mountains at dusk. When you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and turns it into deep darkness.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance;

Matthew 4:16

the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and those sitting in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of shalom.”

Luke 16:8

“Now the master praised the crooked manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are smarter when dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

John 1:9

The true light, coming into the world, gives light to every man.

John 12:35

Therefore Yeshua said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

John 12:36

While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Yeshua spoke these things, then left and hid Himself from them.

John 12:46

As light I have come into the world, so that everyone who trusts in Me should not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

Yeshua spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows Me will no longer walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Acts 17:30

Although God overlooked the periods of ignorance, now He commands everyone everywhere to repent.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes—so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive release from sins as well as a place among those who are made holy through trusting in Me.’

Romans 1:21

for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.

Romans 13:12

The night is almost gone and the day is near, so let us put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 2:19

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

1 Corinthians 1:30

But because of Him you are in Messiah Yeshua, who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and redemption—

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory—just as from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Messiah.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Galatians 5:25

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

Ephesians 2:2

At that time, you walked in the way of this world, in conformity to the ruler of the domain of the air—the ruler of the spirit who is now operating in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Messiah also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:12

we give thanks to the Father, who qualified you to share in the inheritance of the kedoshim in the light.

Colossians 1:13

He rescued us from the domain of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom He loves.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.