Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against authorities, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies.

Have regard to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the abode of violence.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness into light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things for them, and not forsake them.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but Jehovah shall arise over you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great Light, and upon those sitting in the region and shadow of death, Light has sprung up.

to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His possession, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You as a covenant to the people, as a Light to the nations;

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

And He said, It is but a little thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the ends of the earth.

that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be on all the barren heights.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you.

And the nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning.

The sun shall no more be your light by day; nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

Your sun shall not go down any more, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not lay hold of it.

That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.

I have come as a Light into the world, that everyone believing into Me should not remain in darkness.

But out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made for us from God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

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

For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

And walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

So the master commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this world are more prudent in their generation than the sons of light.

While you have the Light, believe into the Light, that you may become sons of Light. These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His possession, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and sojourners, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from every sin.