5. Because you know for sure that persons who are sexually immoral, impure, or greedy—which happens when things become gods—those persons won’t inherit the kingdom of Christ and God.
6. Nobody should deceive you with stupid ideas. God’s anger comes down on those who are disobedient because of this kind of thing.
7. So you shouldn’t have anything to do with them.
8. You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, so live your life as children of light.
9. Light produces fruit that consists of every sort of goodness, justice, and truth.
10. Therefore, test everything to see what’s pleasing to the Lord,
11. and don’t participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness. Instead, you should reveal the truth about them.
12. It’s embarrassing to even talk about what certain persons do in secret.
13. But everything exposed to the light is revealed by the light.
14. Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, Wake up, sleeper! Get up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
15. So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly.
16. Take advantage of every opportunity because these are evil times.
17. Because of this, don’t be ignorant, but understand the Lord’s will.
18. Don’t get drunk on wine, which produces depravity. Instead, be filled with the Spirit in the following ways:
19. speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts;
20. always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;