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Key Verse: Ephesians 5:8 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light”
Ephesians 5:8What you were — darkness — has been replaced by what you now are. You are light itself now, not just someone who occasionally reflects it.
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“But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;”
1 Thessalonians 5:4 · NASB1995Ephesians 5:8 doesn’t say you now merely see the light; it says “you are Light in the Lord,” with instructions to “walk as children of Light.” First Thessalonians 5:4 adds the practical comfort of this: “you are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief.”
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Read Ephesians 5 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.