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8 for you people were once darkness [i.e., when living in sin], but now you are light in [fellowship with] the Lord. [So], live like people who belong to light [i.e., who live godly lives],
9 (for the product of light consists of everything good and right and true).
10 Then you will demonstrate [or, “learn about”] a life that is very pleasing to the Lord.
11 Do not have fellowship with [people who practice] worthless deeds of darkness [i.e., sinful living], but expose them instead.
12 For it is shameful even to talk about the things they do in private.
13 But when all [such] things are exposed by the light [i.e., the truth], they become [clearly] visible [i.e., their true nature is revealed], for everything so revealed becomes illuminated. [Note: Possibly this means “it is light that clearly reveals everything”].
14 So, it says, “You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you].” [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone’s immersion, which included the ideas of “rising up” (See Col. 2:12) and “illumination” (See Heb. 6:4)].