Ephesians 5:14 - Easy To Read Version And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. [Isa. 26:19; 60:1, 2.] American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. Common English Bible Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, “Wake up, sleeper!” “Get up from the dead,” “and Christ will shine on you.” Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, it is said: "You who are sleeping: awaken, and rise up from the dead, and so shall the Christ enlighten you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. |
\{But the Lord says,\}\par “Your people have died,\par but they will live again.\par The bodies of my people\par will rise from death.\par Dead people in the ground,\par stand and be happy!\par The dew covering you is like\par the dew sparkling in the light of a new day.\par It shows a new time is coming when the earth\par will give up the dead people\par that are in it.”\par
Wake up! Wake up!\par Jerusalem, get up!\par The Lord was very angry at you.\par So you were punished.\par \{This punishment was like\} a cup of poison you had to drink.\par And you drank it.\par
Wake up! Wake up Zion! {\cf2\super [420]} \par Dress yourself!\par Put on your strength!\par Holy Jerusalem, stand up!\par People that have not agreed\par to follow God {\cf2\super [421]} \par will not enter you again.\par Those people are not pure and clean.\par
“Jerusalem, my light, get up!\par Your Light (God) is coming!\par The Glory of the Lord {\cf2\super [451]} will shine on you.\par
“With the loving mercy of our God,\par a new Day from heaven\par will shine on us.\par
My son was dead, but now he is alive again! He was lost, but now he is found!’ So they began to have a party.
Later, Jesus talked to the people again. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. The person that follows me will never live in darkness. That person will have the light that gives life.”
Don’t offer the parts of your body to serve sin. Don’t use your bodies as things to do evil with. But you should offer yourselves to God. Be like people that have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used for doing good.
Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you.
God once said, “The light will shine out of the darkness!” And this is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts. He gave us light by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.
In the past, your spiritual lives were dead because of your sins and the things you did wrong against God.
We were \{spiritually\} dead. We were dead because of the things we did wrong against God. But God gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace (kindness).
You were raised from death with Christ. So try to get the things in heaven. I mean the things where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
So we should not be like other people. We should not be sleeping. We should be awake and have self-control.
That grace was not shown to us until now. It was shown to us when our Savior Christ Jesus came. Jesus destroyed death and showed us the way to have life. Yes! Through the Good News Jesus showed us the way to have life that cannot be destroyed.
The devil has trapped those people and makes them do what he wants. But maybe they can wake up \{and see that the devil is using them\} and free themselves from the devil’s trap.