15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
Ephesians 5:15–17
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Colossians 4:4–6
4 Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should. 5 Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Ephesians 4:16–18
16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part. 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in t…
Ephesians 5:10–12
10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
1 Thessalonians 5:5–7
5 For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at ni…
Ephesians 5:1–2
1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Proverbs 9:5–7
5 “Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.” 7 He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
Matthew 25:12–14
12 But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. 14 For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
Epistle of Barnabas 2:1–2
1 Seeing then that the days are evil, and that the Active One himself has the authority, we ought to give heed to ourselves and to seek out the ordinances of the Lord. (BRN) 2 The aids of our faith then are fear and patience, and our allies are long-suffering and self-r… (BRN)
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