To open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
NIV
To open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may thus receive forgiveness and release from their sins and a place and portion among those who are consecrated and purified by faith in Me. [Isa. 42:7, 16.]AMP
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
KJV
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
NIV
Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.
AMP
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
KJV
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment
NIV
For God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom.
AMP
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
KJV
To govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
NIV
To rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.
AMP
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
KJV
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
NIV
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
AMP
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
KJV
If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
NIV
[So] if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are [both] speaking falsely and do not live and practice the Truth [which the Gospel presents].
AMP
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
KJV
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
NIV
I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things.
AMP
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
KJV
