Ephesians 5:14

New Century Version

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Cross References

Isaiah 26:19

Your people have died, but they will live again; their bodies will rise from death. You who lie in the ground, wake up and be happy! The dew covering you is like the dew of a new day; the ground will give birth to the dead.

Isaiah 51:17

Awake! Awake! Get up, Jerusalem. The Lord was very angry with you; your punishment was like wine in a cup. The Lord made you drink that wine; you drank the whole cup until you stumbled.

Isaiah 52:1

Wake up, wake up, Jerusalem! Become strong! Be beautiful again, holy city of Jerusalem. The people who do not worship God and who are not pure will not enter you again.

Isaiah 60:1

“Jerusalem, get up and shine, because your light has come, and the glory of the Lord shines on you.

Luke 1:78

With the loving mercy of our God, a new day from heaven will dawn upon us.

Luke 15:24

My son was dead, but now he is alive again! He was lost, but now he is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

John 8:12

Later, Jesus talked to the people again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The person who follows me will never live in darkness but will have the light that gives life.”

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Acts 13:47

This is what the Lord told us to do, saying: ‘I have made you a light for the nations; you will show people all over the world the way to be saved.’ ”

Romans 6:13

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God—I say this to shame you.

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “Let the light shine out of the darkness!” This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

Ephesians 2:1

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God.

Ephesians 2:5

Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace.

Colossians 3:1

Since you were raised from the dead with Christ, aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So we should not be like other people who are sleeping, but we should be alert and have self-control.

2 Timothy 1:10

but it is now shown to us by the coming of our Savior Christ Jesus. He destroyed death, and through the Good News he showed us the way to have life that cannot be destroyed.

2 Timothy 2:26

And they may wake up and escape from the trap of the devil, who catches them to do what he wants.