5 ⁶ Let no one deceive you with shallow arguments; it is for all these things that God's dreadful judgement is coming upon his rebel subjects. 5 ⁷ Have no part or lot with them. 5 ⁸ For though you were once all darkness, now as Christians you are light. Live like men who are at home in daylight, 5 ⁹ for where light is, there all goodness springs up, all justice and truth. 5 ¹⁰ Try to find out what would please the Lord; 5 ¹¹ take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are. 5 ¹² The things they do in secret it would be shameful even to mention. 5 ¹³ But everything, when once the light has shown it up, is illumined, and everything thus illumined is all light. 5 ¹⁴ And so the hymn says:

'Awake, sleeper,
Rise from the dead,
And Christ will shine upon you.' 5 ¹⁵ Be most careful then how you conduct yourselves: like sensible men, not like simpletons. 5 ¹⁶ Use the present opportunity to the full, for these are evil days. 5 ¹⁷ So do not be fools, but try to understand what the will of the Lord is. 5 ¹⁸ Do not give way to drunkenness and the dissipation that goes with it, but let the Holy Spirit fill you: 5 ¹⁹ speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and Some witnesses insert: spiritual; as in Colossians 3.16. songs; sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord; 5 ²⁰ and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ give thanks every day for everything to our God and Father.


5 ²¹ Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.


---

Notes: This page displays the Revised Standard Version as flowing text. The katapi New Study Bible reference section has been incorporated into the page as follows: Links to parallel passages show below passage headings. Links to Old Testament quotations in New Testament verses show after the verse number.
Quotations of OT passages by NT authors can in most cases be viewed within their context of the OT passage as a whole, with the quoted text displayed in bold font, coloured blue.
Any mismatches, truncated verses, other mistakes ?
Please e-mail me. © Paul Ingram 2012.