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Ephesians 5:7-14 Amplified Bible (AMP)

7. So do not associate or be sharers with them.

8. For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

9. For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.

10. And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].

11. Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.

12. For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that [such people] practice in secret.

13. But when anything is exposed and reproved by the light, it is made visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is light.

14. 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.]

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