Ephesians 5:8

Modern English Version

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —

Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Have respect for the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Isaiah 2:5

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

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:6

He says, “It is a light thing that you should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light to the nations so that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, “Go forth,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.” They shall feed along the paths, and their pastures shall be in all desolate heights;

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord, who obeys the voice of His servant, who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and rely upon his God.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore, bear fruit worthy of repentance,

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness saw great light. And on those who sat in the land of the shadow of death, 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 into the way of peace.”

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.

John 1:9

The true Light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

John 12:36

While you have light, believe in the light that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these things, and departed and hid Himself from them.

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

Acts 17:30

God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Romans 1:21

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him or give thanks to Him as God, but became futile in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 13:12

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us take off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 2:19

You are confident 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 Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

2 Corinthians 3:18

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone 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

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion has light with darkness?

Galatians 5:25

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

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly walked according to the age of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 4:18

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:2

Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 6:12

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled us to be partakers in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Colossians 1:13

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son,

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

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 cleanses us from all sin.