Ephesians 5:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Once you lived in the dark, but now the Lord has filled you with light. Live as children who have light.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

ASV:

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

BBE:

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

DBY:

for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,

ERV:

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

WEY:

There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.

WBS:

For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

WEB:

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

YLT:

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

Ephesians 5:8 Cross References

XREF:

John 12:36 "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.

Acts 26:18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'

Romans 13:12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] {c} light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
(c) The faithful are called light, both because they have the true light in them which enlightens them, and also because they give light to others, insomuch that their honest conversation reproves the life of wicked men.

PNT:

5:8 Ye were sometimes darkness. Not only lived in darkness, but gave off no light and darkened others.
Now [are ye] light in the Lord. Shining with the light that comes from Christ.

WES:

5:8 Ye were once darkness - Total blindness and ignorance. Walk as children of light - Suitably to your present knowledge.

MHC:

5:3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so far from being profitable. that they pollute and poison the hearers. Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God's glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in worldly good, which should be in God only. Those who allow themselves, either in the lusts of the flesh or the love of the world, belong not to the kingdom of grace, nor shall they come to the kingdom of glory. When the vilest transgressors repent and believe the gospel, they become children of obedience, from whom God's wrath is turned away. Dare we make light of that which brings down the wrath of God? Sinners, like men in the dark, are going they know not whither, and doing they know not what. But the grace of God wrought a mighty change in the souls of many. Walk as children of light, as having knowledge and holiness. These works of darkness are unfruitful, whatever profit they may boast; for they end in the destruction of the impenitent sinner. There are many ways of abetting, or taking part in the sins of others; by commendation, counsel, consent, or concealment. And if we share with others in their sins, we must expect to share in their plagues. If we do not reprove the sins of others, we have fellowship with them. A good man will be ashamed to speak of what many wicked men are not ashamed to do. We must have not only a sight and a knowledge that sin is sin, and in some measure shameful, but see it as a breach of God's holy law. After the example of prophets and apostles, we should call on those asleep and dead in sin, to awake and arise, that Christ may give them light.

CONC:

Behaviour Christians Dark Darkness Formerly Itself Nothing Sometime Sometimes Walk

Behaviour Children Christians Dark Darkness Formerly Itself Light Once Sometime Sometimes Time Walk

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