KJV ORIGINAL
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
You used to be darkness itself, but now you're light in the Lord. So live like someone who actually belongs to the light.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
You're not who you used to be, now live like it.
📚 Historical Context
In the first century, the city of Ephesus was a major center of pagan worship and moral corruption, where many new believers had come from idolatrous backgrounds. The Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians to instruct them on living out their new faith in Christ amidst a culture that opposed godly values. In Ephesians 5, Paul builds on this by contrasting their former way of life in darkness with their current identity as people of light, urging ethical and spiritual transformation.
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