Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to {fulfil} the lusts {thereof}.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. {thy graven...: Heb. the graven images of thy silver} {cast: Heb. scatter}

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. {of Bether: or, of division}

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Blessed {is} he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time {is} at hand.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made {each one} for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; {his idols of silver...: Heb. the idols of his silver, etc} {each...: or, for him}

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.

(For the weapons of our warfare {are} not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) {through God: or, to God}

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

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. {true...: or, holiness of truth}

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance {for} clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal {must} put on immortality.

And have put on the new {man}, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast {them} from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: {in the evening: Heb. in the evening of days}

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. {of Bether: or, of division}

And Judah acknowledged {them}, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, {whether it be} a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

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