Job 24:14-17
24:14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up;
he kills the poor and the needy;
in the night he is like a thief.
24:15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,
thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’
and covers his face with a mask.
24:16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses,
but by day they shut themselves in;
they do not know the light.
24:17 For all of them, the morning is to them
like deep darkness;
they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
John 3:19-21
3:19 Now this is the basis for judging:
that the light has come into the world and people
loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
3:20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
3:21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
Ephesians 5:11
5:11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather
expose them.
Ephesians 5:1
Live in Love
5:1 Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
Ephesians 5:5-7
5:5 For you can be confident of this one thing:
that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Live in the Light
5:6 Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
5:7 Therefore do not be partakers with them,
Ephesians 5:1
Live in Love
5:1 Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
Ephesians 1:5-7
1:5 He did this by predestining
us to adoption as his
sons
through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure
of his will –
1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace
that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
1:7 In him
we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
Ephesians 2:8-9
2:8 For by grace you are saved
through faith,
and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2:9 it is not from
works, so that no one can boast.