Ephesians 5:14

Paul calls the spiritually asleep and dead to awake, and promises Christ will shine on them. The gospel summons sinners from death to life in Christ.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 60:1“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Rom 13:11–12Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• 1 Th 5:6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• Isa 52:1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will 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.
• John 5:25–29Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
• Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• John 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
• Isa 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Rom 6:4–5We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• 1 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• 2 Tim 1:10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
• Acts 13:47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
• 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
• Ezek 37:4–10Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
• John 11:43–44When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

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