Devine Scripture

Ephesians 5:8

Ephesians chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

v.8This passage

v.9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 49:9

    saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

  • Psalms 74:20

    Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

    But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

  • Ephesians 2:11

    Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

  • John 12:46

    I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.

  • 1 Peter 2:9

    But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: