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Selected Verse: Ephesians 5:8 - New American Standard Bible©

Verse         Translation Text
Eph 5:8 New American Standard Bible© for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
  King James For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
sometimes--"once." The emphasis is on "were." Ye ought to have no fellowship with sin, which is darkness, for your state as darkness is now PAST. Stronger than "in darkness" (Rom 2:19).

light--not merely "enlightened"; but light enlightening others (Eph 5:13).

in--in union with the Lord, who is THE LIGHT.

children of light--not merely "of the light"; just as "children of disobedience" is used on the opposite side; those whose distinguishing characteristic is light. PLINY, a heathen writing to Trajan, bears unwilling testimony to the extraordinary purity of Christians' lives, contrasted with the people around them.
 
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13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands--
12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
16 "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them;