For you were once darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.

"Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed."

For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, [namely,] the seers.

In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears, Lest they should understand with [their] hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'

And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Now a certain woman named Lydia heard [us.] She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.

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

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

For it is the 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 recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:

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.

[There is] one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for [it] with perseverance.

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of [His] goodness and the work of faith with power,

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle [you.]

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,